Crafton v. Luttrell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1993
8 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Stovall v. Denno · Goldberg v. Kelly · Preiser v. Rodriguez
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Other than to point out that these problems exist, in the posture of this case the court does not reach either the question of whether prisoners charged with disciplinary offenses also punishable as crimes must be afforded counsel during prison proceedings, or the question of to what extent the Fifth Amendment forbids subsequent use in a criminal prosecution of statements made by a prisoner in his own behalf before a prison disciplinary tribunal. The court will only say that in disciplinary proceedings of this nature, prison officials should inform the prisoner of his right to remain silent, and that anything he says may be used as evidence against him in a subsequent criminal prosecution arising out of the same offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The defendants, their agents, and all others acting in concert with them are hereby permanently enjoined from the practice of allowing inmates to be placed in segregation for several days by a prison guard for investigation or upon suspicion of a rules violation without being given specific written notice of the charges, countersigned by the Operations Officer then on duty. No inmate may be retained in isolation for investigation or suspicion of rules violation longer than eighteen hours without this written charge being countersigned by the warden or acting deputy warden, certifying that, in his opinion, probable cause exists to suspect the charged inmate with said rules violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“represents a measure which may be legitimately employed by state prison authorities in exercising their governmental function of preserving order and discipline within the prison system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Childs v. Pellegrin
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.