Berry v. Peterman’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.3d 435 · 2010
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Spruill v. Gillis · Gutierrez v. Peters · Pruitt v. Mote
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“encourages non-medical security and administrative personnel ... to defer to the professional medical judgments of the physicians and nurses treating the prisoners in their care without fear of liability for doing so”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although a medical care system requires nurses to defer to treating physicians' instructions and orders in most situations, that deference may not be blind or unthinking, particularly if it is apparent that the physician's order will likely harm the patient.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the doctor did not completely ignore plaintiff's pain, a doctor's choice of the easier and less efficacious treatment for an objectively serious medical condition can still amount to deliberate indifference ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Leonard
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.