Brown v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 951 · 1994
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Frank M. Dimeglio v. J. Robert Haines (1995), Joseph Locurto v. Howard Safir Commissioner of the New York City (2001)
10 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 Mitchell v. Forsyth · Farmer v. Brennan · Turner v. Safley · United States v. Salerno · Siegert v. Gilley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“minimal civilized measure of life's necessities”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the Constitution embodies a concept of substantive due process, which prevents the government from engaging in conduct that shocks the conscience or interferes with rights implicit in the concept of ordained liberty_Thus, substantive due process claims are analyzed under two tests. First, the state is forbidden from infringing certain “fundamental” liberty interests at all — no matter what process is provided — unless the infringement is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest.... Second, the state’s conduct must shock the conscience or otherwise offend our judicial notions of fairness, or must be offensive to human dignity.... In this Circuit, we have placed a heavy burden on those wishing to extend substantive due process into new arenas.... The fundamental liberty interests implicated in this type of substantive due process challenge generally involve those rights “so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“or interferes with rights implicit in the concept of ordered liberty). In such a case, the plaintiff must ultimately allege that the government action complained of is”
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.