Petties v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. “look at the totality of an inmate's medical care when considering whether that care evidences deliberate indifference to serious medical needs.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wilson v. Adams · Lisle v. Welborn

2. “a medical professional's treatment decision must be 'such a substantial departure from accepted professional judgment, practice, or standards as to demonstrate that the person responsible did not base the decision on such a judgment.' " Id. (quoting Cole , 94 F.3d at 261-62 ). This is because an absence of professional judgment, rather than a disagreement on the proper course of action, imposes liability for a deliberate indifference claim. See, e.g. , Collignon v. Milwaukee Cty. , 163 F.3d 982 , 989 (7th Cir. 1998) ("A plaintiff can show that the professional disregarded the need only if the professional's subjective response was so inadequate that it demonstrated an absence of professional judgment, that is, no minimally competent professional would have so responded under those circumstances.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wilson v. Adams · Vaught v. Quality Corr. Care, LLC

3. “delays are common in the prison setting with limited resources, and whether the length of a delay is tolerable depends on the seriousness of the condition and the ease of providing treatment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mitchell v. Kallas · 318 F. Supp. 3d 1094 - Page v. Obaisi