Johnson v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
601 F.2d 172 · 1979
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably Richardson v. Fleming (1981), Serio v. Members of Louisiana State Board of Pardons (1987)
24 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co. v. United States · Groendyke Transport, Inc. v. Davis
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny challenge to the fact or duration of a prisoner’s confinement is properly treated as a habeas corpus matter, whereas challenges to conditions of confinement may proceed under § 1983 without any requirement of exhaustion of state judicial remedies. Courts should be governed by these classifications regardless of the relief sought or the label placed by the petitioner upon such action. Johnson v. Hardy, 601 F.2d 172 (5th Cir. 1979) (emphasis in original); accord, Wallace v. Hewitt, supra.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[h]is claims for declaratory and monetary relief [arose] solely as a result of this single allegedly defective hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gwin v. Snow“an injunction prohibiting the defendants from denying appellant his procedural rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keenan v. Bennett
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.