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15 canonical passages across 15 cases, quoted by 1,401 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 Tyrone Petties v. Imhotep Carter.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyrone Petties v. Imhotep Carter Anchor | green | “must provide evidence that an official actually knew of and disregarded a substantial risk of harm.” | 272 |
| 2 | Victor Robinson v. Jolinda Waterman | green | “even where a non-movant fails to respond to a motion for summary judgment, the movant still has to show that summary judgment is proper given the undisputed facts.” | 190 |
| 3 | Adrian Thomas v. James Blackard | green | “prison officials can be liable for violating the eighth amendment when they display deliberate indifference towards an objectively serious medical need.” | 165 |
| 4 | Boyce, Chester v. Moore, Lieutenant | green | “to provide adequate medical care to incarcerated individuals.” | 145 |
| 5 | Kenneth E. Gentry v. Jack R. Duckworth, Superintendent, Indiana State Reformatory | green | “to recover damages under 1983, a plaintiff must establish that a defendant was personally responsible for the deprivation of a constitutional right.” | 139 |
| 6 | Thomas v. Cook County Sheriff's Department | green | “(1) an official policy adopted and promulgated by its officers; (2) a governmental practice or custom that, although not officially authorized, is widespread and well settled; or (3) an official with final policy-making authority.” | 117 |
| 7 | Charles COLLINS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. D.J. KIBORT and Educational Therapy Center, Defendants-Appellants | green | “a plaintiff cannot state a claim against a defendant by including the defendant's name in the caption.” | 90 |
| 8 | Duckworth v. Ahmad | green | “(1) an objectively serious medical condition to which (2) a state official was deliberately, that is subjectively, indifferent.” | 72 |
| 9 | Stallings v. Liping Zhang | green | “were so 'significant a departure from accepted professional standards or practices' that it is questionable whether they actually exercised professional judgment.” | 48 |
| 10 | Charleston v. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | green | “instead, a plausible claim must include 'factual content' sufficient to allow the court 'to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged.” | 32 |
| 11 | Gutierrez v. Peters | green | “prison officials violate the eighth amendment's proscription against cruel and unusual punishment when their conduct demonstrates 'deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners.” | 32 |
| 12 | William Dean v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc. | green | “held that a jury can infer deliberate indifference when a treatment decision is 'so far afield of accepted professional standards as to raise the inference that it was not actually based on a medical judgment.” | 30 |
| 13 | David Snyder v. J. King etal | green | “section 1983 only permits an individual to sue a 'person' who deprives that individual of his or her federally-guaranteed rights under color of state law.” | 29 |
| 14 | Donyall White v. Wendy Knight | green | “the fact that a building is owned by a corporate entity or a government agency does not make the building a suable person under 1983.” | 24 |
| 15 | Brian K. Thomson v. Odie Washington | green | “some indication . . . of time and place.” | 16 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.