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841 F.3d 219 · 2016

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
January 2025
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Anderson v. Creighton

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 30 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.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[T]he Eighth Amendment imposes a duty on prison officials to 'provide humane conditions of confinement ... [and] ensure that inmates receive adequate food, clothing, shelter, and medical care.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[A] prison official's 'deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners constitutes the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain proscribed by the Eighth Amendment.'”
    2 later decisions 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.