Pischke v. Litscher’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.3d 497 · 1999
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Lorenzo Montez v. Mark McKinna (2000), DeWalt v. Carter (2000)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Sandin v. Conner · Olim v. Wakinekona · Peyton v. Rowe · Maleng v. Cook · Richardson v. McKnight
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the prisoner is seeking what can fairly be described as a quantum change in the level of custody — whether outright freedom, or freedom subject to the limited reporting and financial constraints of bond or parole or probation ... then habeas corpus is his remedy. But if he is seeking a different program or location or environment, then he is challenging the conditions rather than the fact of his confinement and his remedy is under civil rights law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“be violated by the decision of a state to confine a convicted prisoner in a prison owned by a private firm rather than by a government,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if but only if the prisoner is seeking to `get out' of custody in a meaningful sense”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bunn v. Conley · Alejo v. Heller
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.