Davis v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]n the absence of a detailed factual record, we have affirmed dismissal of due process claims only in cases where the period of time spent in SHU was exceedingly short -less than the 30 days that the Sandin plaintiff spent in SHU-and there was no indication that the plaintiff endured unusual SHU conditions.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Halcomb v. Ravenal · Rasheen v. Adner

2. “Restrictive confinements of less than 101 days do not generally raise a liberty interest warranting due process protection, and thus require proof of conditions more onerous than usual.” Davis v. Barrett, 576 F.3d 129, 133 (2d Cir.2009) (citing Howard, 215 F.3d at 231 -32 & n. 5). . Moreover, state officials cannot be sued in their official capacity for damages because such officials are not”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. A'Gard v. Perez

3. “could constitute atypical and significant hardships if the conditions were more severe than the normal SHU conditions of Sealy or a more fully developed record showed that even relatively brief confinements under normal SHU conditions were, in fact, atypical.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rasheen v. Adner