365 F. Supp. 1262 - Wesson v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Landman v. Royster · 350 F. Supp. 164 - Ferrell v. Huffman · 363 F. Supp. 821 - Lloyd v. Oliver
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. the presumption must, in the absence of extenuating circumstances, be in favor of the opportunity of an accused inmate to confront and cross-examine the witnesses against him, even in a non-punitive, ICC reclassification hearing, where the witnesses in question are subject to control by the penal authorities. The burden is on penal authorities to explain why' such opportunity should not be provided in a given circumstance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . this Court . . . does not sit as a ‘prison review agency’. * * * [T]he scope of review is normally limited to deciding whether the [SCC] action taken was arbitrary, or punitive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hodges v. Klein
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.