6 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 118 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 Christopher Pyles v. Magid Fahim.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Pyles v. Magid Fahim Anchor | green | “disagreement between a prisoner and his doctor, or even between two medical professionals, about the proper course of treatment generally is insufficient, by itself, to establish an eighth amendment violation.” | 34 |
| 2 | Tyrone Petties v. Imhotep Carter | green | “while evidence of malpractice is not enough for a plaintiff to survive summary judgment on an eighth amendment claim, nor is a doctor's claim he did not know any better sufficient to immunize him from liability in every circumstance.” | 24 |
| 3 | Burton v. Downey | green | “the infliction of suffering on prisoners can be found to violate the eighth amendment only if that infliction is either deliberate, or reckless in nature in the criminal sense” | 19 |
| 4 | Christopher Pyles v. Magid Fahim | green | “a prisoner may establish deliberate indifference by demonstrating that the treatment he received was 'blatantly inappropriate.” | 18 |
| 5 | Leon Snipes v. George Detella, Doctor Ehrhardt, John L. Russian | green | “whether and how pain associated with medical treatment should be mitigated is for doctors to decide free from judicial interference, except in the most extreme situations.” | 15 |
| 6 | Christopher Pyles v. Magid Fahim | green | “a medical professional is entitled to deference in treatment decisions unless 'no minimally competent professional would have so responded under those circumstances” | 8 |
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.