State v. Santiago’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2020
16 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 Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio · United States v. Halper · Austin Products Co. v. Workers' Compensation Insurers Rating Association of Minnesota · American Premier Underwriters, Inc. v. USX Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“administrative sanctions ... [that] serve the purpose of maintaining institutional order and security....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n the prison context, virtually any form of sanction seems criminal and punitive as we commonly understand those terms. With that in mind, we recognize that many of the ... factors may weigh in the [prisoner's] favor.... In this unique setting, we must take into account the fact that a prison's remedial and punitive interests are inextricably related.... [W]e factor into our analysis the importance of granting some deference to the judgments of prison authorities in determining what is necessary and proper to preserve institutional order and discipline, and to encourage good conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Correction authorities must be allowed to take appropriate action to ensure the safety of inmates and correction employees; they must be permitted promptly to sanction misconduct within the institution so as to preserve order and discipline.”
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.