Ambrose ex rel. Ambrose v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

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16 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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

1. “need not show that a prison official acted or failed to act believing that harm actually would befall an inmate; it is enough that the official acted or failed to act despite his knowledge of a substantial risk of serious harm.... Whether a prison official had the requisite knowledge of a substantial risk is a question of fact subject to demonstration in the usual ways, including inference from circumstantial evidence, ... and a factfinder may conclude that a prison official knew of a substantial risk from the very fact that the risk was obvious.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 620 F. Supp. 2d 1035 - Burke v. North Dakota Department of Correction & Rehabilitation

2. “[I]f the court finds no constitutional violation occurred, the analysis ends and the issue of qualified immunity is not addressed.... This is not to say, however, the defendant official is entitled to qualified immunity. Rather, if no constitutional violation occurred, plaintiff's claim fails as a matter of law because plaintiff did not prove an essential element of the § 1983 claim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cronin v. Peterson

3. “the need for more or different training is so obvious, and the inadequacy so likely to result in the violation of constitutional rights, that [Torres] can reasonably be said to have been deliberately indifferent to the need.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 548 F. Supp. 2d 694 - Teasley v. Forler