23 Kan. App. 2d 1 - Lile v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
September 2007
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sandin v. Conner · Carnegie v. United States · Hewitt v. Helms · Palmer v. Brown · 12 Kan. App. 2d 183 - Swisher v. Hamilton
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.
“The statute and regulations provide the DOC with unfettered discretion in making such decisions and do not require that an inmate be granted a lesser security status upon any specific finding as to the inmate’s behavior.... Kansas law does not create a liberty interest regarding a prison inmate’s security classification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lile v. Simmons“security classification to `medium by exception' because of his good behavior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.