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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 162 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 Edward E. Westlake v. William Lucas, Sheriff of Wayne County.

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1 Edward E. Westlake v. William Lucas, Sheriff of Wayne County Anchor
ca6 · 1976
green “where a prisoner has received some medical attention and the dispute is over the adequacy of the treatment, federal courts are generally reluctant to second guess medical judgments and to constitutionalize claims which sound in state tort law.” 114
2 Alspaugh v. McConnell
ca6 · 2011
green “so woefully inadequate as to amount to no treatment at all.” 48

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