Lewis v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
279 F.3d 526 · 2002
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Andrews v. Cervantes (2007), Ciarpaglini v. Saini (2003)
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
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 Estelle v. Gamble · Gideon v. Wainwright · Farmer v. Brennan · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under imminent danger of serious physical injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“threat or prison condition [must be] real and proximate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ciarpaglini v. Saini
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.