Eugene Woodard v. Ohio Adult Parole Authority’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020
7 federal appellate · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Simmons v. United States · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Sandin v. Conner · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Supreme Court has made it clear [in Sandin v. Conner] that both state law and the Due Process Clause itself may create [a liberty] interest,” while”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such procedural requirements ... 'are not designed to confer rights on inmates.' " See Counts v. Newhart, 951 F.Supp. 579, 584 (E.D.Va.1996) (quoting Sandin, 115 S.Ct. at 2299 ), aff'd, 116 F.3d 1473 (4th Cir.1997) (table); see also Woodard v. Ohio Adult Parole Auth., 107 F.3d 1178, 1183 (6th Cir.) ("[E]ven though state law plays a role in determining the existence of property or liberty interests, the ultimate question of the degree of due process protection to be afforded under the Constitution remains a federal one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Joe Jordan v. Jim Bowles W El W L Andrew Miller · Joe Jordan v. Jim Bowles, Sheriff of Dallas County, Gary Johnson, Governor, State of New Mexico, George W. Bush, John Doe, Dan Morales, Tom Udall, E.L. McMillian Karl Sannicks, Ron Lytle, Mark W. Bush, Chief McMillian Sharon L. McMillian Joe Williams, John Shanks, Donald Dorsey, New Mexico Corrections Department, Dallas County Jail, Dallas County Sheriff's Department, Andrew Miller v. Jim Bowles, Sheriff of Dallas County, Gary Johnson, Governor, State of New Mexico, George W. Bush, John Doe, Dan Morales, Tom Udall, E.L. McMillian Karl Sannicks, Ron Lytle, Mark W. Bush, Chief McMillian Sharon L. McMillian Joe Williams, John Shanks, Donald Dorsey, New Mexico Corrections Department, Dallas County Jail, Dallas County Sheriff's Department, William Fry v. Jim Bowles, Sheriff of Dallas County, Gary Johnson, Governor, State of New Mexico, George W. Bush, John Doe, Dan Morales, Tom Udall, E.L. McMillian Karl Sannicks, Ron Lytle, Mark W. Bush, Chief McMillian Sharon L. McMillian Joe Williams, John Shanks, Donald Dorsey, New Mexico Corrections Department, Dallas County Jail, Dallas County Sheriff's Department“state law controls as to the existence of a property interest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cosco v. Lampert · Louis Dean Cosco
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.