Smith v. Rabalais’s Empirical Analysis
659 F.2d 539 · 1981
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Redding v. Fairman (1983), Richardson v. Selsky (1993)
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Pointer v. Texas · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessarily lower than that demanded in criminal, parole-probation, revocation or civil proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'whether any evidence at all' supports the action taken by the prison officials.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibbs v. King · Hudson v. Johnson“state prison officials enjoy wide discretion”
2 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.