Green v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2002
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Procunier v. Martinez · Baxter v. Palmigiano
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . If the telephone calls were unnecessary, then the IDC decision must have been based on the incident report and the petitioner’s testimony. It is doubtful, however, that these two sources alone constituted a sufficient basis for the committee’s finding. Indeed, the fact that IDC Chairman Moore made the tele phone calls suggests that further testimony was needed. More importantly, one of the other IDC members explained during litigation that the telephone calls reinforced the incident report, and served as a basis for the committee’s final decision. By excluding the staff testimony as unnecessary, Chairman Moore mistook corroboration for mere redundance. If it appears that a potential witness may offer testimony that will influence the decision of the prison disciplinary committee, that testimony is necessary under Wolff , and the witness should be called. Chairman Moore’s decision to exclude the testimony of the three staff members thus was not justified by lack of necessity. “This Court now turns to the alternative justification for the exclusion of witnesses: institutional security. The government does not specify the hazards involved in allowing the petitioner to call the three employees as witnesses. Rather, the government asserts that these potential witnesses were adverse, therefore the petitioner was actually requesting confrontation and cross-examination, and that under Wolff the denial of such a request, usually for security reasons, is immune from judicial scrut”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he entire text of the reasons for the action taken consists of three words: “Seriousness of offense.” This clearly fails the specificity requirements. Cf. Candarini v. Attorney General of the United States, 369 F.Supp. 1132, 1137 (E.D.N.Y.1974) (pro forma reasons for denial of parole unconstitutional).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“beyond the competence of correctional officials to consider and arguably beyond their authority.”
1 later decision 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.