Melton v. Abston’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “mere scintilla of evidence in support of the nonmoving party will not suffice to overcome a motion for summary judgment.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Canal Ins. Co. v. Butler · Day, LLC v. Plantation Pipe Line Co.

2. “(1) grossly inadequate care; (2) a decision to take an easier but less efficacious course of treatment; and (3) medical care that is so cursory as to amount to no treatment at all. A defendant who unreasonably fails to respond or refuses to treat an inmate's need for medical care or one who delays necessary treatment without explanation or for non-medical reasons may also exhibit deliberate indifference.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Waldron v. Spicher · 382 F. Supp. 3d 1288 - Hoffer v. Inch

3. “To find that a broad principle of law clearly establishes the law as to a specific set of facts, it must do so with obvious clarity to the point that every objectively reasonable government official facing the circumstances would know that the official's conduct did violate federal law when the official acted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Waldron v. Spicher