Young v. Choinski

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the plaintiff failed to demonstrate his wounds were a serious medical need in part because the plaintiff did not allege the wounds “significantly interfered with his daily activities or caused him substantial or chronic pain”
• noting that “case law within this Circuit recognizes that depression combined with severe anxiety attacks or suicide attempts is a serious medical need” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• explaining that supervisory official can be personally involved in a constitutional violation if the violation is ongoing and he takes no corrective action but is not personally involved if he learns of the violation after-the-fact
• collecting cases and finding that plaintiff’s sworn complaint and deposition testimony constituted evidence sufficient to consider for summary judgment purposes
• collecting cases for the proposition that abrasions with minor bleeding do not constitute a “serious medical need”
• failure of prison official to respond to inmate request insufficient to show personal involvement in Eighth Amendment claim

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Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Faiaz v. Colgate University
  N.D. New York· 2014-11-24· cited 29×
• Young v. Choinski
  D. Connecticut· 2014-09-16· cited 23×
• Motevali v. Blinken
  District of Columbia· 2025-03-21

Cites

65 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ashcroft v. Iqbal
  Supreme Court· 2009-05-18· cited 149,772×
• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 58,760×
• Farmer v. Brennan
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-06· cited 28,443×
• Estelle v. Gamble
  Supreme Court· 1976-11-30· cited 28,035×
• Wilson v. Seiter
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-17· cited 6,530×
• Shelley Weinstock v. Columbia University
  Second Circuit· 2000-08-23· cited 1,405×
• Salahuddin v. Goord
  Second Circuit· 2006-10-27· cited 1,403×
• Huey B. Wright v. Harold Smith and Thomas A. Coughlin, III
  Second Circuit· 1994-04-06· cited 1,168×
• Colon v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1995-06-28· cited 902×
• Gutierrez v. Peters
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-04-23· cited 877×
• Chance v. Armstrong
  Second Circuit· 1998-05-07· cited 822×
• Willie Smith v. Nurse Carpenter, Superintendent Wilkinson, Superintendent at Pharsalia Corr. Facility
  Second Circuit· 2003-01-14· cited 644×
• Richard S. RASKIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the WYATT COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
  Second Circuit· 1997-09-09· cited 631×
• Unnamed case
  Second Circuit· 2004-12-02· cited 611×
• Western World Insurance Company v. Stack Oil, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1990-12-26· cited 605×
• Hathaway v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1994-09-29· cited 554×
• Harrison v. Barkley
  Second Circuit· 2000-07-17· cited 513×
• Christopher J. Farrell v. Corey Burke and Gregory Freeman, Docket No. 05-0169 Cv
  Second Circuit· 2006-05-31· cited 503×
• Bowring v. Godwin
  Fourth Circuit· 1977-03-18· cited 503×

Other cases named Young v. Choinski

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Young v. Choinski
  D. Connecticut· 2014-09-16· cited 23×