Gotcher v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
66 F.3d 1097 · 1995
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Edwards v. Balisok (1997), Ramirez v. Galaza (2003)
37 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Heck v. Humphrey · Sandin v. Conner · Hewitt v. Helms · Meachum v. Fano
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Following Wolff, we recognize that States may under certain circumstances create liberty interests which are protected by the Due Process Clause. But these interests will be generally limited to freedom from restraint which, while not exceeding the sentence in such an unexpected manner as to give rise to protection by the Due Process Clause of its own force, nonetheless imposes atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to determine the constitutional validity of [the appellants'] continuing confinement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the record in this appeal is insufficient for a determination of whether the [restriction on visitation privileges] at issue imposed an 'atypical and significant hardship on [Runion] in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Runion v. Wood
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.