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351 F. Supp. 2d 295 - Bryan v. Shah’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Salas v. Carpenter · No. 01-3449 · Hubbard Ex Rel. Hubbard v. Reed · United States v. Syme · Burns v. Belafsky

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

  1. “[T]his case does not appear to turn on whether defendants knew that a patient taking lithium is at risk of suffering from lithium toxicity if regular lab tests are not performed; this case does appear to revolve around whether medical orders were adhered to and whether Defendants followed up with the Plaintiff after the orders were given.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[w]hile laypersons are unlikely to know how often insulin-dependent diabetics need insulin, common sense -- the judgment imparted by human experience -- would tell a layperson that medical personnel charged with caring for an insulin-dependent diabetic should determine how often the diabetic needs insulin.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “twice failed to obtain blood tests to monitor Lithium levels, which tests were twice ordered by the physician[,]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.