James v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2016
11 state decisions
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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Dawson v. Smith · Freitas v. Auger · McKinney v. Meese
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an inmate is disciplined on the basis of confidential information ... his interest in a fair hearing requires that there be some indication of the confidential informant’s reliability. To that end, there must be sufficient information in the record to convince a reviewing authority that the disciplinary committee undertook such inquiry and correctly concluded that the confidential information was credible and reliable. The reliability of confidential information may be established by inter alia, in camera review of material documenting an investigator’s assessment of the credibility of a confidential informant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. James v. State · Key v. State“An appeal from a final judgment entered under this chapter may be taken, perfected, and prosecuted either by the applicant or by the state in the manner and within the time after judgment as provided in the rules of appellate procedure for appeals from final judgments in criminal cases. However, if the applicant is seeking an appeal under section 663A.2, subsection 6 [loss of good conduct time credits], the appeal shall be by writ of certiorari.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. LuGrain v. State
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.