McGowan v. Hulick

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “the length of delay that is tolerable depends on the seriousness of the condition and the ease of providing treatment”
• noting that doctors can be deliberately indifferent when they delay or deny access to a specialist
• noting that delaying treatment can violate the Constitution if it “unnecessarily prolonged an inmate’s pain”
• finding that a three-month delay after the plaintiff complained of dental pain supported a deliberate indifference claim
• explaining that a prison medical director could act with deliberate indifference where he “was aware of the severity of [the plaintiff’s] dental problems yet refused to approve a dental visit”
• stating that “negligence, even gross negligence does not violate the Constitution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hebbe v. Pliler
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-07-29· cited 4,042×
• Miguel Perez v. James Fenoglio
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-07-07· cited 3,534×
• Arnett v. Webster
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-09-12· cited 2,079×
• Jeffrey Olson v. Donald Morgan
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-04-30· cited 868×
• Gomez v. Randle
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-05-14· cited 815×
• Gonzalez v. Feinerman
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-12-02· cited 632×
• Roy Mitchell, Jr. v. Kevin Kallas
  Seventh Circuit· 2018-07-10· cited 614×
• Calvin Whiting v. Wexford Health Sources, Incorp
  Seventh Circuit· 2016-10-12· cited 593×
• Anthony N. Smith v. Knox County Jail
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-01-23· cited 592×
• Shawn Eagan v. Michael Dempsey
  Seventh Circuit· 2021-02-09· cited 550×
• Shane Holloway v. Delaware County S
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-11-20· cited 404×
• James Donald v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2020-12-01· cited 267×
• James Lewis v. Angela McLean
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-07-21· cited 204×
• Melvin Phillips v. Sheriff of Cook County
  Seventh Circuit· 2016-07-06· cited 102×
• Daryise Earl v. Racine County Jail
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-05-28· cited 58×
• Gevas v. Mitchell
  Seventh Circuit· 2012-08-20· cited 56×
• Hammond v. Rector
  S.D. Illinois· 2015-08-19· cited 46×
• Richard Smego v. Jacqueline Mitchell
  Seventh Circuit· 2013-07-19· cited 43×
• Holmes v. Godinez
  N.D. Illinois· 2015-10-08· cited 34×
• Plummer v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-07-22· cited 32×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Erickson v. Pardus
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-04· cited 34,635×
• Farmer v. Brennan
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 28,443×
• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Haines v. Kerner
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-22· cited 26,103×
• Burks v. Raemisch
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-02-10· cited 1,955×
• Grieveson v. Anderson
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-08-18· cited 1,215×
• Gutierrez v. Peters
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-04-23· cited 877×
• Berry v. Peterman
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-05-05· cited 872×
• Van Dyke Johnson v. Stephen Doughty, Doctor, John Cearlock, Don Hinderliter
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-01-17· cited 821×
• Santiago v. Walls
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-03-29· cited 787×
• Gayton v. McCoy
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-01-28· cited 786×
• Robert Bruno Ciarpaglini v. Doctor Narinder Saini, Doctor Laurens D. Young, and Phil Kingston
  Seventh Circuit· 2003-12-11· cited 703×
• Hayes v. Snyder
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-10-09· cited 701×
• Knight v. Wiseman
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-12-22· cited 469×
• Wayne Edwards v. Donald N. Snyder, Jr., Director, Michael L. Holmes, Allan Wisely
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-03-07· cited 362×
• Darnell Cooper and Anthony Davis v. Michael Casey
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-10-02· cited 292×
• Napoleon Hartsfield v. Nurse Janice Colburn Capt. McGregor Dr. Lugwig Capt. McGregor Sheriff Conord Lt. Brundies
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-06-14· cited 210×