Workman v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.2d 1201 · 1974
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex (1979), Billiteri v. United States Board of Parole (1976)
34 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 5 U.S.C. § 500
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Roe v. Wade · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Preiser v. Rodriguez
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the claim is clear and certain and the duty of the officer is ministerial and so plainly prescribed as to be free from doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“require . . . (compliance) officers . . . to perform the ministerial duty of complying with their own regulations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to declare the due process requirements applicable to (the challenged) proceedings.”
1 later decision 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.