Fano v. Meachum’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.2d 374 · 1975
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2009 · most notably Meachum v. Fano (1976), Olim v. Wakinekona (1983)
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We attach no significance for present purposes to the fact that these proceedings were for 'classification' rather than 'discipline.' Defendants assert that 'there are in the instant case as many administrative overtones as disciplinary ones,' but we have already indicated that in our view the motive of prison officials, as such, is not properly a part of the due process calculus. Gomes v. Travisono, 510 F.2d 537 , 541 (1st Cir. 1974). Whether the transfer is thought of as punishment or as a way of preserving institutional order, the effects on the inmate are the same and the appropriateness of the action depends upon the accuracy of the official allegation of misconduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Meachum v. Fano“(a)dministrative realities may sometimes necessitate the flexibility to transfer even on the basis of demonstrably inadequate information,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to insure that the state-created right is not arbitrarily abrogated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Meachum v. Fano
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.