Robert J. Daigle v. Frank A. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
564 F.2d 884 · 1977
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1999
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 · Gordon J. O'Brien v. John R. Moriarty · Lombardo v. Meachum · Four Certain Unnamed Inmates of Massachusetts Correctional Institution v. Hall
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s long as the conditions or degree of confinement to which the prisoner is subjected are within the sentence imposed upon him and are not otherwise violative of the Constitution, the Due Process Clause does not in itself subject an inmate’s treatment by prison authorities to judicial oversight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the DSU is part of the Massachusetts prison system to which these inmates were sentenced. We are pointed to nothing in the order of the sentencing judge that puts the DSU beyond the bounds of their sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raffone v. Robinson“continued retention in the general institution population is detrimental to the program of the institution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Raffone v. Robinson
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.