Walker v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.3d 1415 · 1994
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Sandin v. Conner (1995), Rio Properties, Inc. v. Rio International Interlink (2002)
39 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Hewitt v. Helms · Whitley v. Albers
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'rise above the floor set by the due process clause.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) establishing 'substantive predicates' to govern official decisionmaking, and (2) using 'explicitly mandatory language,' i.e. specific directives to the decisionmaker that if the regulations' substantive predicates are present, a particular outcome must follow.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Song v. Miller · Browning v. Vernon“status, prior to his hearing. Lamons notes that he presented evidence that one prison official, Sergeant Brandt, confirmed that Lamons was confined to quarters. Even viewing this evidence in the light most favorable to Lamons, however, it is not sufficient to raise a genuine issue of material fact when viewed in the context of the remainder of the evidence presented to the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lamons v. Co Walsh
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.