Drayton v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
March 1986
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bates v. State Bar · Goodman v. Mead Johnson & Co. · Jiro J. Enomoto, Etc. v. James C. Wright
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“20 Some of the provisions of Pennsylvania's own regulations appear to recognize that the investigative rationale does not support indefinite solitary confinement. When a prisoner is confined as a result of a general institutional disturbance or incident, because officials determine that there is a threat of a serious disturbance or a serious threat to the individual or others, the regulations provide,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hewitt v. Helms
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.