Ort v. Pinchback’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. “... we hold that the district court erred as a matter of law in concluding that a physician who contracts with the state to provide medical care to inmates does not act under color of state law. In Ancata v. Prison Health Services, Inc., 769 F.2d 700 (11th Cir.1985), we pointed out that medical personnel need not be state employees in order that their actions be considered state action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . We held that the employees of a private entity hired by a county to provide medical care to jail inmates acted under color of state law so as to be subject to liability under § 1983. Id. at 703 . Dr. Pinchback similarly performed “a function which is traditionally the exclusive prerogative of the state” when he took over the state’s responsibility for attending to inmate medical needs. Id.; see Morrison v. Washington County, Ala., 700 F.2d 678 , 683 (11th Cir.1983).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. West v. Atkins