Palmer v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
364 F.3d 60 · 2004
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Iqbal v. Hasty (2007), Ortiz v. McBride (2004)
13 federal appellate ·
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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Sandin v. Conner · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · Johnson v. Jones
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of a detailed factual record,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perry v. Spencer · Colon v. Annucci“could constitute atypical and significant hardships if the conditions were more severe than the normal SHU conditions of Sealy or a more fully developed record showed that even relatively brief confinements under normal SHU conditions were, in fact, atypical.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perry v. Spencer · Rasheen v. Adner“[a] prisoner's liberty interest is implicated by prison discipline, such as SHU confinement, only if the discipline 'imposes [an] atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reyes v. Fischer · Colon v. Annucci
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.