Giovanni v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.3d 908 · 1995
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Hill v. Johnson (2000), Myers v. Klevenhagen (1996)
7 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Hewitt v. Helms · Olim v. Wakinekona · 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a liberty ... interest is infringed, the process which is due under the United States Constitution is that measured by the due process clause, not that called for by state regulations. Mere failure to accord the procedural protections called for by state law or regulation does not of itself amount to a denial of due process.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A state’s failure to follow its own procedural regulations does not establish a violation of due process, because “constitutional mi-nima may nevertheless have been met.”... “Such action may constitute a ... violation of state law, but unless the conduct trespasses on federal constitutional safeguards, there is no constitutional deprivation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Once an inmate has been properly placed in Extended Lockdown and afforded the full process required by Hewitt, the failure to release him ... or to afford him a further hearing ... does not violate his due process rights." Giovanni v. Lynn, 48 F.3d 908 [5th Cir., La., 1995] at p. 913.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lay v. Rachel-Major
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.