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.
“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“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.