Easter v. Powell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a delay in medical care must cause “substantial harm” to be a constitutional violation
• holding that there was an Eighth Amendment liability where the prison nurse offered non treatment options to a patient with a history of cardiac problems who was experiencing chest pains
• holding that medical treatment that is impossible to conduct is not medical treatment
• explaining that “in the light of pre-existing law the unlawfulness must be apparent” (emphasis added)
• finding “substantial harm” prong met based on severe chest pain suffered during period of time in which official refused to treat inmate
• finding knowledge of risk based on combination of known heart condition, complaints of chest pain, and request for medication

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

47 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bruce Rogers v. Shawna Boatright
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-02-18· cited 282×
• Constance Westfall v. Jose Luna
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-09-13· cited 252×
• Larry Alderson v. Concordia Parish Corrtl Facil, e
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-02-09· cited 223×
• Freddie Coleman v. David Sweetin
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-03-12· cited 186×
• Thad Delaughter v. Ronald Woodall
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-11-19· cited 117×
• Aguirre v. City of San Antonio
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-04-22· cited 103×
• Kitchen Ex Rel. the Estate of Kitchen v. Dallas County
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-07-17· cited 96×
• Michael Petzold v. Mike Rostollan
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-12-27· cited 77×
• Scott Gibson v. Bryan Collier
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-03-29· cited 76×
• Thomas v. City of Galveston, Texas
  S.D. Texas· 2011-08-01· cited 74×
• Carrie Sama v. Edward Hannigan
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-02-03· cited 59×
• Kelson v. Clark
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-06-17· cited 54×
• Eboni Baldwin v. Harris County Sheriff Dept
  Fifth Circuit· 2020-07-01· cited 52×
• Ford v. Anderson County
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-05-22· cited 43×
• Davis v. Lumpkin
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-06-02· cited 37×
• Rogers v. Jarrett
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-03-30· cited 32×
• Austin v. City of Pasadena
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-07-18· cited 30×
• Sims v. Griffin
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-06-01· cited 29×
• Thompson v. TDCJ
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-05-05· cited 27×
• Gallentine v. Housing Authority
  E.D. Texas· 2013-01-22· cited 26×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Farmer v. Brennan
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 28,443×
• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Wilson v. Seiter
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-17· cited 6,530×
• Hope v. Pelzer
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-27· cited 4,957×
• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• Domino v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-02-07· cited 848×
• Gobert v. Caldwell
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-08-29· cited 784×
• Sealock v. State Of Colorado
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-07-11· cited 778×
• Raymundo R. Mendoza v. James A. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-04-28· cited 495×
• Harris v. Hegmann
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-12-08· cited 487×
• Salas v. Carpenter
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-12-08· cited 409×
• Stewart v. Murphy
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-05-14· cited 270×
• Kinney v. Weaver
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-09-24· cited 226×
• Palmer v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-10-19· cited 184×
• Rankin v. Klevenhagen
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-10-18· cited 142×
• Ralphfield Hudson v. Irwin M. McHugh Director, Michael Lew Center, Mary Lafever, Michael Lew Center, and Howard Erickson, Rock County Sheriff
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-07-08· cited 123×
• Hall v. Thomas
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-09-29· cited 89×
• Steven Steele v. Han Chul Choi
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-05-30· cited 84×