Todaro v. Ward

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the district court's rejection of the plaintiff's deliberate indifference claim based on \access to outside specialists and elective surgery\
• citing, inter alia, Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 104–05 (1976
• “[T]he Eighth Amendment forbids not only deprivations of medical care that produce physical torture and lingering death, but also less serious denials which cause or perpetuate pain.”
• “[T]he Eighth Amendment forbids not only deprivations of medical care that produce physical torture and lingering death, but also less serious denials which cause or perpetuate pain.”
• characterizing glaucoma and eye infections as “serious ailments”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rhodes v. Chapman
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-15· cited 6,761×
• Grishelda Bryant v. John J. Maffucci, Dawn Thackeray, Yvonne Powell, Norwood Jackson and Dr. Edward Allan
  Second Circuit· 1991-01-17· cited 1,081×
• Harold Nance v. Walter C. Kelly, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 1990-08-28· cited 281×
• Louis Wolfish v. Honorable Edward Levi
  Second Circuit· 1978-01-24· cited 227×
• Hernandez v. Keane
  Second Circuit· 2003-08-20· cited 223×
• Cooper v. U.S. Postal Service
  Second Circuit· 2009-08-20· cited 111×
• Nicholson v. Scoppetta
  Second Circuit· 2003-09-16· cited 96×
• Marcera v. Chinlund
  Second Circuit· 1979-02-27· cited 94×
• Clarkson v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1995-06-16· cited 79×
• Wiggins v. Griffin
  Second Circuit· 2023-11-20· cited 44×
• Lowrance v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1994-09-08· cited 26×
• Sereika v. Patel
  S.D. New York· 2006-01-25· cited 23×
• Abdush-Shahid v. Coughlin
  N.D. New York· 1996-06-24· cited 20×
• Morales v. Fischer
  W.D. New York· 2014-09-22· cited 15×
• Banks v. Mannoia
  N.D. New York· 1995-06-23· cited 14×
• Fisher v. Koehler
  S.D. New York· 1988-08-09· cited 14×
• Medcalf v. State of Kan.
  D. Kansas· 1986-01-27· cited 11×
• Bryant v. Maffucci
  S.D. New York· 1990-01-23· cited 6×
• Ginest v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS. OF CARBON COUNTY
  D. Wyoming· 2004-07-27· cited 6×
• Richardson v. Nassau County
  E.D. New York· 2003-08-13· cited 6×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Procunier v. Martinez
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-29· cited 2,649×
• Milliken v. Bradley
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-27· cited 1,041×
• Nazareth Gates, and United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. John Collier, Superintendent, Mississippi State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-09-20· cited 349×
• Charles Jones v. William Metzger, Homer Roberts
  Sixth Circuit· 1972-03-14· cited 144×
• N. H. Newman v. State of Alabama and Bill Baxley, Attorney General for the State of Alabama, United States of America, Amicus Curiae
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-01-10· cited 139×
• Todaro v. Ward
  Second Circuit· 1977-10-31· cited 124×
• Rhem v. Malcolm
  Second Circuit· 1974-11-08· cited 117×
• Finney v. Arkansas Board of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1974-10-10· cited 115×
• Louis Martinez v. Vincent R. Mancusi, Warden, Attica Prison, Dr. Williams, Dr. Stamburg, and Nurse Hoffman, Attica Prison
  Second Circuit· 1970-10-08· cited 114×
• Jones v. Wittenberg
  N.D. Ohio· 1971-07-09· cited 101×
• Norcott Corby v. J. P. Conboy, Superintendent
  Second Circuit· 1972-03-15· cited 90×
• Miller v. Carson
  M.D. Florida· 1975-07-17· cited 58×
• Jere Bishop v. Kent R. Stoneman, Commissioner of Corrections of the State of Vermont, and Julius v. Moeykens, Warden, Vermont State Prison
  Second Circuit· 1974-12-04· cited 55×
• Todaro v. Ward
  S.D. New York· 1977-04-25· cited 36×
• Cruz v. Ward
  Second Circuit· 1977-06-23· cited 20×