Montanye v. Haymes’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
591 federal appellate · 219 district · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,782 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Sandin v. Conner (1995), Hewitt v. Helms (1983)
591 federal appellate · 219 district · 183 state decisions — followed in 28 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States ex rel. Haymes v. Montanye (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
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 Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Meachum v. Fano · Hoitt v. Vitek
Cited together with Meachum v. Fano · Wolff v. McDonnell · Hewitt v. Helms · Olim v. Wakinekona · Vitek 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 1,782 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s long as the conditions or degree of confinement to which the prisoner is subjected is within the sentence imposed upon him and is not otherwise violative of the Constitution, the Due Process Clause does not in itself subject an inmate's treatment by prison authorities to judicial oversight.”
82 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether revocation of a prisoner's work-release status constitutes a deprivation of liberty protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“On this claim, the reason for the defendants' action is critical.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lane v. Reid · Haymes v. Montanye
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.