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Estelle v. Gamble

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
429 U.S. 97
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
1,639 of 1,639
Citing cases (total)
28,039
Treatment dates
1995
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. Estelle v. Gamble has one confirmed limit, listed below, after all 1,639 flagged citations were read. A Wisconsin court declined to extend its medical-care standard to foster children.
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Courts continue to apply Estelle's rule for prisoners.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

28,039 later cases cite Estelle v. Gamble; 1,639 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

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  • The Wisconsin Court of Appeals declined to use Estelle's deliberate-indifference test for foster children's Fourteenth Amendment claims, choosing a professional-judgment standard instead.

    Kara B. v. Dane County · Wisconsin Court of Appeals · filed

    The more permissive Estelle /Farmer deliberate-indifference test would not serve that distinction for it would force foster children to endure constitutional deprivations absent a showing of deliberate indifference on the part of their caretakers.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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