McMillan v. Fielding’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Parratt v. Taylor · Heck v. Humphrey · Daniels v. Williams · Hudson v. Palmer · Sandin v. Conner
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ten days in lock up, the loss of package privileges, and a $ 4.00 fine do not constitute an atypical and significant hardship in the context of prison life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Dillman
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.