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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 14 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 Donald W. Whitehead v. Edward H. Burnside.

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1 Donald W. Whitehead v. Edward H. Burnside Anchor
ca11 · 2010
green “shock the conscience or be intolerable to fundamental fairness.” 5
2 Scott v. Gibson
ca10 · 2002
green “shock the conscience or be intolerable to fundamental fairness.” 5
3 Edward Lee Clemmons v. Dale Bohannon, Robert Tansy, Herb Maschner, and Robert Mills
ca10 · 1992
green “even if a prison official has knowledge of a substantial risk of serious harm to inmates, he is not deliberately indifferent to that risk unless he is aware of and fails to take reasonable steps to alleviate the risk.” 4

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