Shorts v. Bartholomew’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2023
1 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Mathews v. Eldridge
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.. .when a prisoner’s sentence has expired, he is entitled to release. Whirl v. Kern, 407 F.2d 781, 791 (5th Cir.1969) (holding that “there is no privilege in a jailer to keep a prisoner in jail beyond the period of his lawful sentence”). Perhaps more to the point, an incarcerated inmate has “a liberty interest in being released at the end of his term of imprisonment.” Schultz v. Egan, 103 Fed.Appx. 437, 440 (2d Cir.2004); Davis v. Hall, 375 F.3d 703, 712-13 (8th Cir.2004). This liberty interest is most often attributed to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision 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.