Jago v. Van Curen’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
186 federal appellate · 26 district · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 461 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Russello v. United States (1983), Mabry v. Johnson (1984)
186 federal appellate · 26 district · 110 state decisions — followed in 18 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
reviewedVan Curen v. Jago (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Perry v. Sindermann · Bishop v. Wood
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 461 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grievous loss visited upon a person by the State ... suffic[e] to invoke the procedural protections of the Due Process Clause.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. State · Brandt v. State“: 23 We would severely restrict the necessary flexibility of prison administrators and parole authorities were we to hold that any one of their myriad decisions with respect to individual inmates may ... give rise to protected”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he ground for a constitutional claim, if any, must be found in statutes or other rules defining the obligations of the authority.”
3 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.