Williams v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 712 · 1993
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Howard Dean Rouse v. Dennis L. Benson David Crist Steve C. Hokonson Timothy Lanz (1999), Newell v. Sauser (1996)
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Wolff v. McDonnell · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Bounds v. Smith
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Regulations create a protectable liberty interest only when they (1) “place substantive limitations on the exercise of official discretion;” and (2) contain “ ‘explicit mandatory language’ ” comprising “ ‘specific directives to the decision maker that if the regulations’ substantive predicate acts are present, a particular outcome must follow.’ ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an individual inmate does not have a constitutional right to 'practice' jailhouse law”
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.