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Taylor v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis

920 F.3d 729 · 2019

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
August 2023
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

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

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble · Farmer v. Brennan · Pearson v. Callahan · Gregg v. Georgia

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

  1. “is so obvious that even a lay person would easily recognize the necessity for a doctor's attention.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “to be held liable for deliberate indifference to a serious medical need).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain. ...”
    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.