Griffin v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
112 F.3d 703 · 1997
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 16 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Michael Malik Allah v. Thomas Seiverling (2000), Mitchell v. Horn (2003)
37 federal appellate · 16 district · 5 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 · Hewitt v. Helms · Meachum v. Fano · Olim v. Wakinekona · Keenan v. Hall
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Applying the precepts of Sandin to the circumstances before us, we conclude that the conditions experienced by Griffin in administrative custody did not impose on him “atypical and significant hardship,” that he was thus deprived of no state created liberty interest, and that the failure to give him a hearing prior to his transfer to administrative custody was not a violation of the procedural due process guaranteed by the United States Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an inmate must show that he has been deprived of the minimal civilized measure of life’s necessities. This includes proving [1] that the deprivation suffered was sufficiently serious, and [2] that a prison official acted with deliberate indifference in subjecting him to that deprivation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he baseline . . . is ascertained by what a sentenced inmate - 27 - may reasonably expect to encounter as a result of his or her conviction . . . .”
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.