Butterfield v. Bail’s Empirical Analysis
120 F.3d 1023 · 1997
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Wilkinson Director Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction et al. v. Dotson et al. (2005), Ramirez v. Galaza (2003)
27 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · Edwards v. Balisok · Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Department · Fulbright v. United States
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a challenge to the procedures used in the denial of parole necessarily implicates the validity of the denial of parole and, therefore, the prisoner's continuing confinement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]lthough Appellant does not in form challenge the legality or length of his confinement, in substance his damages may only be measured by that confinement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the court concludes that the challenge would necessarily imply the invalidity of the judgment or continuing confinement, then the challenge must be brought as a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, not under § 1983.”
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.