Ghana v. Pearce’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 1206 · 1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2017
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Sandin v. Conner · Maine v. Thiboutot · Cuyler v. Adams · Covey v. Hollydale Mobilehome Estates · Stewart v. McManus
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“procedures are a purely local concern and there is no federal interest absent some constitutional violation in the treatment of these prisoners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garcia v. Lemaster“`imposes atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garcia v. Lemaster
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.