189 F. Supp. 2d 719 - Austin v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3626 (§ 20409 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Estelle v. Gamble · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Heck v. Humphrey
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[requiring Department officials to give inmates specific notice of all of the grounds for placing and retaining them at OSP would cause minimal hardship. The officials would only need to expend the additional time to write out their reasons for making a specific classification decision. Furthermore, this minimal amount of additional time would increase the Department’s efficiency. Accurately summarizing all the grounds supporting an inmate’s placement at the OSP would later assist reviewing entities and avoid unnecessary prisoner assignments to the OSP.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Austin v. Wilkinson“access to basketball courts and work-out areas.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Clarke“ha[d] outside recreation available every day.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Clarke
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.