Sabil M. Mujahid v. Kevin Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 931 · 1995
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Talley v. Hesse (1996), Anthony Dewayne Mitchell v. Clarence Dupnik (1996)
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Sandin v. Conner · Hewitt v. Helms · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson · Harper v. Virginia Department of Taxation · In re Disbarment of Johnson
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'present[s] the type of atypical, significant deprivation in which a state might conceivably create a liberty interest.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Supreme Court’s decision in Sandin applies retroactively to the instant case because the Court applied the rule announced in Sandin to the parties in that case. See Harper v. Virginia Dep't of Taxation, - U.S. -, -, 113 S.Ct. 2510, 2517 , 125 L.Ed.2d 74 (1993) (no court may refuse to apply rule of federal law retroactively once the Court applies it to the parties before it).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'explicitly mandatory language' specifying the outcome that must be reached upon a finding that the substantive predicates have been met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.