Newman v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.3d 650 · 1997
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Ware v. Jackson County (1998), Jackson v. Everett (1998)
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Chapman v. Burton Berger & Associates · Kalan Inc. v. United States · McGill v. Duckworth · Spawn v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deliberately indifferent to the need to protect an inmate from a substantial risk of serious harm from other inmates”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the duty to act reasonably is a negligence standard, and Farmer stands for the broad proposition that deliberate indifference includes something more than negligence but less than actual intent to harm”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intentionally opened [Fender's] cell door for the purpose of assisting [the attacker] in assaulting [Fender], that intent to cause harm would clearly constitute deliberate indifference for Eighth Amendment purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fender v. Bull
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.