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775 F.3d 170 · 2014

Citation profile

77
cited by 77 later decisions
May 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915A · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co.

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

  1. “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.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “kn[ew] of and disregard[ed] an excessive risk to inmate health or safety.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “mere negligence or even civil recklessness.”
    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.