Snow v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.3d 978 · 2012
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Kentucky v. Graham · Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o prevail on a claim involving choices between alternative courses of treatment, a prisoner must show that the chosen course of treatment 'was medically unacceptable under the circumstances,' and was chosen 'in conscious disregard of an excessive risk' to the prisoner's health.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable person would likely determine [the medical treatment] to be inferior,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“chosen course of treatment 'was medically unacceptable under the circumstances' " (alterations in original) (quoting Jackson v. McIntosh , 90 F.3d 330 , 332 (9th Cir. 1996) )). "In deciding whether there has been deliberate indifference to an inmate's serious medical needs, we need not defer to the judgment of prison doctors or administrators.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.