Orellana v. Kyle’s Empirical Analysis
65 F.3d 29 · 1995
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably McIntosh v. United States Parole Commission (1997), Geiger v. Jowers (2005)
36 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Sandin v. Conner · Hewitt v. Helms · Weaver v. Graham · Vitek v. Jones
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After [Sandin ], prisoners may no longer peruse state statutes and prison regulations searching for the grail of limited discretion. . Instead, a prisoner has a liberty interest only in “freedom[s] from restraint ... imposing] atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.” Id. at 472, 115 S.Ct. at 2294 (emphasis added).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Evans v. Holm · Miller v. Campbell“[I]t is difficult to see that any other deprivations in the prison context, short of those that clearly impinge on the duration of confinement, will henceforth qualify for constitutional liberty' status.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the ambit of [prisoners'] potential Fourteenth Amendment due process liberty claims has been dramatically narrowed.”
4 later decisions 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.