Ward v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Based upon Wolff and Baxter ( 425 U.S. 308 , 96 S.Ct. 1551, 47 L.Ed.2d 810 (1976) ), we are of the view that a prisoner faced with disciplinary proceedings resulting in a loss of good time or disciplinary confinement has a constitutional right to call witnesses in his defense when permitting him to do so will not be unduly hazardous to institutional safety or correctional goals.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ward v. Johnson · Segarra v. McDade

2. “"Here, [referring to solitary confinement] as in the case of good time, there should be minimum procedural safeguards as a hedge against arbitrary determination of the factual predicate for imposition of the sanction. We do not suggest, however, that the procedures required by today's decision for the deprivation of good time would also be required for the imposition of lesser penalties such as the loss of privileges."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 466 So. 2d 182 - Summerford v. State