Hines v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
108 F.3d 265 · 1997
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Herman Resnick v. Warden Hayes Lt. Ernst Officer Myers (Dho) Counselor Aune Officer Wade (2000), Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999)
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Perry v. Sindermann · Sandin v. Conner · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Barnett v. Centoni
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“retain other protection from arbitrary state action ... within the expected conditions of confinement. They may invoke the First and Eighth Amendments and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment where appropriate, and may draw upon internal prison grievance procedures and state judicial review where available.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t would be illegal for [corrections] officials to transfer and double-cell [plaintiff] solely in retaliation for his exercise of protected First Amendment rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since Sandin, this court has reaffirmed that prisoners may still base retaliation claims on harms that would not raise due process concerns.”
2 later decisions 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.