Hurney v. Carver’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 993 · 1979
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Hobson v. Wilson (1984), Elliott v. Perez (1985)
39 federal appellate · 12 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Baxter v. Palmigiano · Texas v. Louisiana
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not sufficient merely to allege that complainant’s requests to call witnesses or submit written statements at a prison disciplinary hearing were denied, even if it is additionally alleged that the disciplinary board did not express its reasons for the denial. To state a valid claim, it must be alleged that the inmate’s requests were denied for reasons not having to do with institutional security or correctional goals, and that the prison officials, in ruling as they did, clearly abused their considerable discretion in such matters. (Citations omitted.) Moreover, these allegations must be backed up with enough supportive facts to outline the elements of the pleader’s claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“disciplinary board need not state its reasons for 'refusing to call a witness'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woods v. Marks“unpleaded facts to support ... conclusory [allegations].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Brown
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.