Ponte v. Real’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
236 federal appellate · 65 district · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 856 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Bennett v. Spear (1997), Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill (1985)
236 federal appellate · 65 district · 161 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 856 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the disciplinary proceeding, or by presenting testimony in court if the deprivation of a”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“logically related to preventing undue hazards to 'institutional safety or correctional goals.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o hold that the Due Process Clause confers a circumscribed right on the inmate to call witnesses at a disciplinary hearing, and then conclude that no explanation need ever be vouched for the denial of that right, either in the disciplinary proceeding itself or if that proceeding be later challenged in court, would change an admittedly circumscribed right into a privilege conferred in the unreviewable discretion of the disciplinary board.”
6 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.