Michael Malik Allah v. Thomas Seiverling’s Empirical Analysis
229 F.3d 220 · 2000
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 28 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 654 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Henry Rauser v. Martin Horn in His Official Capacity As Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (2001), Mitchell v. Horn (2003)
19 federal appellate · 28 district · 2 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Sandin v. Conner · Lewis Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Casey · Bounds v. Smith · Hewitt v. Helms
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 654 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was sufficient to deter a person of ordinary firmness from exercising his [constitutional] rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sandin instructs that placement in administrative confinement will generally not create a liberty interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[g]overnment actions, which standing alone do not violate the Constitution, may nonetheless be constitutional torts if motivated in substantial part by a desire to punish an individual for exercise of a constitutional right.”
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.