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← 512 FSUPP 948 - Adams v. Wainwright

Adams v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
July 1994
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201

Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Wolff v. McDonnell · Edelman v. Jordan · Goldberg v. Kelly · Fuentes v. Shevin

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

  1. “creating a justifiable expectation in an inmate that he [would] not be placed in administrative confinement absent a finding that he [fell] into one of the enumerated categories,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “inmates in administrative confinement will be reviewed by the Classification Team for possible release at regular intervals.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.