Kelley v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
400 F.3d 1282 · 2005
Citation profile
27
cited by 27 later decisions
November 2016
most recently cited
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Helling v. McKinney · Wilson v. B/E Aerospace, Inc. · Farrow v. West · Hill v. Dekalb Regional Youth Detention Center
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A serious medical need is one that has been diagnosed by a physician as mandating treatment or one that is so obvious that even a lay person would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor’s attention. In the alternative, a serious medical need is determined by whether a delay in treating the need worsens the condition. In either case, the medical need must be one that, if left unattended, poses a substantial risk of serious harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Milton v. Turner
How this case has been treated — in progress
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