Miller v. Selsky’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.3d 7 · 1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Robert Sims v. Christopher Artuz Philip Coombe Jr Cyril Coefield Sylvia Laguna Lorette Klein Donald Selsky (2000), Sealey v. Th Giltner a III R (1997)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Sandin v. Conner · Jackson v. Internal Revenue Service · Keenan v. Hall · Whitford v. Boglino · Samuels v. Mockry
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“create a per se blanket rule that disciplinary confinement may never implicate a liberty interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circumstances of a confinement to determine whether that confinement affected a liberty interest”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The language and analysis in Sandin make clear that the Court did not intend to suggest that discipline in segregated confinement could never present such an “atypical, significant deprivation.” [W]e now state explicitly: Sandin did not create a per se blanket rule that disciplinary confinement may never implicate a liberty interest.... [Djistrict courts must examine the circumstances of a confinement to determine whether that confinement affected a liberty interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Johnson
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.