Helms v. Hewitt’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 487 · 1981
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 10 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Hewitt v. Helms (1983), Hewitt v. Helms (1987)
28 federal appellate · 10 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997 (Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [T]he record must contain some underlying factual information from which the [tribunal] can reasonably conclude that the informant was credible or his information reliable; (2) the record must contain the informant's statement [written or as reported] in language that is factual rather than conclusionary and must establish by its specificity that the informant spoke with personal knowledge of the matters contained in such statement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A determination of guilt on such a record, with no primary evidence of guilt in the form of witness statements, oral or written, or any form of corroborative evidence, amounts to a determination on the blind acceptance of the prison officer’s statement. Such a practice is unacceptable; it does not fulfill Wolffs perception of “mutual accommodation between institutional needs and objections” and constitutional requirements of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Helms suffered a denial of due process by being convicted on a misconduct charge when the only evidence offered against him was a hearsay recital, by the charging officer, of an uncorroborated report of an unidentified informant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hewitt v. Helms · Helms v. Hewitt
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.