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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 25 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Laura Skop v. City of Atlanta, Georgia.

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1 Laura Skop v. City of Atlanta, Georgia Anchor
ca11 · 2007
green “must be found to have itself caused the constitutional violation at issue; it cannot be found liable on a vicarious liability theory.” 9
2 Melanie Lydia Dacosta v. Stanislaus Nwachukwa
ca11 · 2002
green “only the most egregious official conduct can be said to be arbitrary in the constitutional sense.” 6
3 Davis v. Carter
ca11 · 2009
green “to rise to the conscience-shocking level, conduct most likely must be 'intended to injure in some way unjustifiable by any government interest.” 6
4 Davis v. Carter
ca11 · 2009
green “act willfully or maliciously with an intent to injure” 4

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