Brown v. Plaut’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.3d 163 · 1997
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Muhammad v. Close (2004), Ramirez v. Galaza (2003)
36 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Heck v. Humphrey · Sandin v. Conner · Preiser v. Rodriguez
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has never deviated from Preiser's clear line between challenges to the fact or length of custody and challenges to the conditions of confinement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“atypical and significant hardship ... in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. Consistent with Brown, the District claims that assuming Hatch had a liberty interest in avoiding segregative confinement, Lorton officials afforded him the process he was due. Based on the record before us, we disagree. 19 The parties in this case agree that if Hatch had a liberty interest in avoiding administrative segregation, then Hewitt specifies the minimum procedures for placing him in such confinement. Those procedures include”
1 later decision 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.