Steffey v. Orman’s Empirical Analysis

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9 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions

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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] due process claim under the Fourteenth Amendment can only be maintained where there exists a constitutionally cognizable liberty or property interest with which the state has interfered”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Fontenot v. Hunter · Tonjes v. Park Cnty. Sheriff's Office

2. “To demonstrate a property interest, 'a person clearly must have more than an abstract need or desire for [a certain benefit] ... [h]e must have more than a unilateral expectation of it;' rather a person must have a 'legitimate claim of entitlement.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tonjes v. Park Cnty. Sheriff's Office

3. “impose[ ] atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grissom v. Roberts