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6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 116 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 Crosby v. City of Gastonia.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crosby v. City of Gastonia Anchor | green | “that the alleged deprivation was committed by a person acting under color of state law.” | 43 |
| 2 | Marlon Hall v. DIRECTV, LLC | green | “must accept as true all of the factual allegations contained in the complaint and draw all reasonable inferences in favor of the plaintiff.” | 35 |
| 3 | Occupy Columbia v. Nikki Haley | green | “a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.” | 18 |
| 4 | Jacob Pfaller v. Mark Amonette | green | “because 'adequate . . . medical care' is a basic condition of humane confinement, a prison official's 'deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners constitutes the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain proscribed by the eighth amendment.” | 8 |
| 5 | Kenneth Jenkins v. Calvin Woodard | green | “since the plaintiff was a pretrial detainee and not a convicted prisoner, the fourteenth amendment, and not the eighth amendment, governs his claim.” | 7 |
| 6 | Crosby v. City of Gastonia | green | “a federal civil rights claim based upon 1983 has two essential elements: 'a plaintiff must allege the violation of a right secured by the constitution and laws of the united states, and must show that the alleged deprivation was committed by a person acting under color of state…” | 5 |
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.