Newton v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.3d 301 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2025
4 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Salve Regina College v. Russell · Gregoire v. Biddle · Spears v. Ol McCotter · Albrecht v. Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“faced a substantial risk of serious harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a prison official had the requisite knowledge of a substantial risk is a question of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Brenoettsy
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.