Morgan v. Rabun’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.3d 694 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. JAVIER M. (2001), Department of Health & Mental Hygiene v. Kelly (2007)
18 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Sandin v. Conner · Hewitt v. Helms · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Washington v. Harper
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Federal Due Process Clause defines only the minimum protections required. State law, however, may recognize more extensive liberty interests than the Federal Constitution. See Mills [v. Rogers], 457 U.S. [291,] 300, 102 S.Ct. [2442,] 2448, 73 L.Ed.2d 16 [(1982)]. These state-created liberty interests are entitled to protection under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause. See id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The governmental interests in running a state mental hospital are similar in material aspects to that of running a prison. Administrators have a vital interest in ensuring the safety of their staff, other patients, and of course in ensuring the patients’ own safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Serna v. Goodno“the decisions made by professionals are correct”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rabenberg v. Rigney
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.