Conner v. Sakai’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.3d 1463 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Sandin v. Conner (1995), Pratt v. Rowland (1995)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not rest upon the mere allegations or denials of [his] pleading, but ... by affidavits ... must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in 'explicitly mandatory language,' that if the substantive predicates are met, a particular outcome must follow.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fourteenth amendment protects liberty interests arising from the Due Process Clause or created by state law.”
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.