Hudson v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 854 · 1970
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Cohen v. United States (1979), In Re John Ballay, A/K/A Figeret Hoxha, Patient (1973)
64 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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
Relies on Pierson v. Ray · Powell v. McCormack · Burgett v. Texas · Jones v. Cunningham · Johnson v. Avery
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [It] may follow him throughout the prison system; if his punishment was without cause, he is punished anew each time his record is used against him. * * * Similarly, his disciplinary record may affect his eligibility for parole. * * *”
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.