Turner v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Sandin v. Conner
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that prison disciplinary proceedings do not constitute criminal prosecutions. Hence, they do not implicate the Double Jeopardy Clause, as its applicability is limited to proceedings that are “essentially criminal” in nature. Prison disciplinary proceedings and criminal prosecutions have differing goals. “The prison disciplinary process determines whether the defendant had violated the conditions of his incarceration and is designed to maintain institutional security and order.” In contrast, “[a] criminal prosecution is designed to punish the defendant for a violation of the criminal laws.” While prison disciplinary sanctions may have punitive aspects, they are primarily remedial in nature. “Punitive interests and remedial interests ... are nowhere so tightly intertwined as in the prison setting, where the government’s remedial interest is to maintain order and to prevent violent altercations among a population of criminals.” (citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.