Hewitt v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2,189 federal appellate · 609 district · 667 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,865 later decisions (44 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), Sandin v. Conner (1995)
2,189 federal appellate · 609 district · 667 state decisions — followed in 44 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
reviewedHelms v. Hewitt (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish
Cited together with Wolff v. McDonnell · Olim v. Wakinekona · Meachum v. Fano · Bell v. Wolfish · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson
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 5,865 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Liberty interests protected by the Fourteenth Amendment may arise from two sources--the Due Process Clause itself and the laws of the States.”
367 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hudson v. Palmer · Black v. Romano“This review will not necessarily require that prison officials permit the submission of any additional evidence or statements. The decision whether a prisoner remains a security risk will be based on facts relating to a particular prisoner— which will have been ascertained when determining to confine the inmate to administrative segregation — and on the officials’ general knowledge of prison conditions and tensions, which are singularly unsuited for “proof’ in any highly structured manner.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a reasonable time following an inmate's transfer”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.