Watson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting the claim that public entities and employees 14 have a duty to provide “reasonable medical care”
• setting out the elements of a failure-to-summon-medical-care claim under 12 California Government Code § 845.6
• affirming dismissal of inmate’s failure-to-summon 10 claim because he “was able to walk,” merely “complained that his ankle was tender,” 11 “[n]one of the doctors who examined [him] recognized the extent of the injury,” and prison 12 officials in fact “provided prompt medical care”
• affirming dismissal when prison guards 10 could not have known of inmate’s need for immediate medical care and could not have 11 been expected to diagnose his Achilles tendon rupture, since he was “able to walk” and 12 merely “complained that his ankle was tender”
• “Liability under section 845.6 is limited to 5 serious and obvious medical conditions requiring immediate care.”
• liability under section 845.6 is limited to situations where defendants in tentionally or unjustifiably fail to respond to “serious and obvious conditions requiring immediate care”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lance Jett v. M. Penner, D. Peterson, and Cheryl K. Pliler, Warden
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-03-09· cited 1,907×
• State v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 2004-05-24· cited 351×
• Shane Horton v. City of Santa Maria
  Ninth Circuit· 2019-02-01· cited 308×
• Castaneda v. Department of Corrections & Rehabilation
  California Court of Appeal· 2013-01-15· cited 90×
• Lawson v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 2010-01-11· cited 70×
• Lucas v. County of Los Angeles
  California Court of Appeal· 1996-07-09· cited 65×
• Scalia v. Cnty. of Kern
  E.D. California· 2018-04-10· cited 52×
• Gong v. City of Rosemead
  California Court of Appeal· 2014-05-20· cited 40×
• Jameson v. Desta
  California Court of Appeal· 2013-04-29· cited 29×
• Estate of Prasad ex rel. Prasad v. County of Sutter
  E.D. California· 2013-07-30· cited 27×
• Lapachet v. Cal. Forensic Med. Grp., Inc.
  E.D. California· 2018-06-01· cited 18×
• Villarreal v. County of Monterey
  N.D. California· 2017-05-26· cited 13×
• M.H. v. County of Alameda
  N.D. California· 2014-04-11· cited 12×
• Frary v. County of Marin
  N.D. California· 2015-02-25· cited 11×
• Casenas v. Fujisawa USA, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1997-10-03· cited 10×
• Wells v. One2One Learning Foundation
  California Court of Appeal· 2004-06-23· cited 4×
• Jett v. Penner
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-03-08
• Malear v. State of California
  California Court of Appeal· 2023-03-13

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Leal v. Holy Spirit Ass'n for Unification of World Christianity
  California Supreme Court· 1988-10-17· cited 422×
• AARTS Productions, Inc. v. Crocker National Bank
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-04-11· cited 261×
• Williams v. Horvath
  California Supreme Court· 1976-05-04· cited 216×
• Phillips v. Desert Hospital District
  California Supreme Court· 1989-10-16· cited 100×
• Nelson v. State of California
  California Court of Appeal· 1982-12-21· cited 70×
• Fall River Joint Unified School District v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1988-11-17· cited 59×
• Donohue v. State of California
  California Court of Appeal· 1986-03-12· cited 59×
• Zeilman v. County of Kern
  California Court of Appeal· 1985-06-06· cited 45×
• Lucas v. City of Long Beach
  California Court of Appeal· 1976-07-21· cited 41×
• Kinney v. County of Contra Costa
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-06-15· cited 23×
• Fisher v. Pickens
  California Court of Appeal· 1990-11-26· cited 22×
• Flores v. Natividad Medical Center
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-06-22· cited 20×
• Sanders v. County of Yuba
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-01-17· cited 15×
• Hart v. County of Orange
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-09-13· cited 14×