Four Certain Unnamed Inmates of Massachusetts Correctional Institution v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 1291 · 1977
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1995 · most notably Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex (1979), Twyman v. Crisp (1978)
16 federal appellate · 10 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Meachum v. Fano · Montanye v. Haymes · Lombardo v. Meachum
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some right or justifiable expectation rooted in state law that (they) will not be transferred except for misbehavior or upon the occurrence of other specified events.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But this circuit has recently held that the present prison regulations dealing with reclassification do not impose substantive standards on the decision to transfer an inmate. Lombardo v. Meachum, 548 F.2d 13 (1977). Freedom from transfer is not a “liberty interest” since an inmate may be transferred at the whim of the Commissioner. Because no “liberty interest” has been infringed by the transfer, due process does not attach, and the district court’s order cannot stand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wakinekona v. Olim
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.