Blades v. Schuetzle’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] prison official cannot be found liable under the Eighth Amendment for denying an inmate humane conditions of confinement unless the official knows of and disregards an excessive risk to inmate health or safety; the official must both be aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists, and he must also draw the inference.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lenz v. Wade

2. “[T]he matter of deliberate indifference must be determined with regard to the relevant prison official's knowledge at the time in question, not with `hindsight's perfect vision.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lenz v. Wade

3. “This subjective state of mind must be present before a plaintiff can be successful because only the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain implicates the Eighth Amendment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lenz v. Wade