Paige v. Hudson’s Empirical Analysis
341 F.3d 642 · 2003
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Sandin v. Conner · Friedl v. City of New York · Mitchell v. Horn · Young v. Harper · Loria v. Gorman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The difference between being confined in a jail and being confined to one’s home is much greater than the difference between being a member of the general prison population and an inmate of a prison’s segregation wing, the sort of difference that Sandin refused to characterize as the difference between having liberty and being deprived of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Liska v. Dart
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.