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5 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 147 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 Giles v. Kearney.

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1 Giles v. Kearney Anchor
ca3 · 2009
green “to act with deliberate indifference to serious medical needs is to recklessly disregard a substantial risk of serious harm.” 58
2 United States v. Fayette County, Pennsylvania
ca3 · 1979
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.” 44
3 United States v. Fayette County, Pennsylvania
ca3 · 1979
green “are generally reluctant to second guess medical judgments and to constitutionalize claims which sound in state tort law.” 15
4 Giles v. Kearney
ca3 · 2009
green “intentionally denied or delayed medical care.” 15
5 Jevon Everett v. Nort
ca3 · 2013
green “both aware of facts from which the inference could be drawn that a substantial risk of serious harm exists and . . . drew that inference.” 15

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