Jones v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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.

1. “The requirement that the rules and regulations be filed serves to make them available to the public, to give the public notice thereof and provide a common and definite place ... where the exact content of such rules and regulations, including any changes, might be found ... a central place ... where ... anyone may examine in that one place what the law or rule is that ... affect[s] his particular interest. Thus the filing of the rules and regulations serves to fulfill the “notice” component of due process. Id. at 1006 , 489 N.Y.S.2d 50 , 478 N.E.2d 191 (citations omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McNear v. Coughlin

2. ““Rules and regulations of correctional institutions that affect a prisoner’s ‘liberty’ interests, as here, may not properly be said to involve matters of ‘organization or internal management’, thus exempting them from the filing requirements---- Such rules and regulations affect the entire prison population, that segment of the ‘general public’ over which the Department of Correctional Services exercises direct authority, and constitute a ‘kind of legislative or quasi-legislative norm or prescription which establishes a pattern or course of conduct for the future.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Massey v. Secretary, Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services