Dunn v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis

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Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) knowledge of a serious medical need and a failure or refusal to provide care; (2) delaying treatment for non-medical reasons; (3) grossly inadequate care; (4) a decision to take an easier but less efficacious course of treatment; or (5) medical care that is so cursory as to amount to no treatment at all.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Keohane v. Jones

2. “a healthy inmate who had suffered no deprivation of needed medical treatment ... to claim violation of his constitutional right to medical care, simply on the ground that the prison medical facilities were inadequate....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Braggs v. Dunn

3. “that they have been subjected to the harmful policies and practices at issue, not (necessarily) that they have already been harmed by these policies and practices.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Braggs v. Dunn