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← 951 FSUPP 579 - Counts v. Newhart

Counts v. Newhart’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2017
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2017

1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

50199620002010decided

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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Estelle v. Gamble

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “such procedural requirements ... 'are not designed to confer rights on inmates.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “to nothing more than procedural requirements for the management of”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “ha[d] no right recognized by the federal Constitution to be confined in state prison instead of a local jail. He [was] therefore not similarly situated for equal protection purposes with inmates in state prison.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.