Langton v. Berman’s Empirical Analysis
667 F.2d 231 · 1981
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Sanchez v. Miller (1986), United States v. Hensel (1983)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Johnston v. Holiday Inns, Inc. · McDonald v. Hall · Hurney v. Carver · 483 F. Supp. 165 - Rinehart v. Brewer
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We continue to advise ... [prison officials] to follow Wolff's mandate to devise regulations to assure that the disciplinary board's procedure is adequate to enable it to reasonably conclude that any confidential information upon which it relied was reliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sanchez v. Miller“need to afford some protection against arbitrary or vindictive actions by prison officials stemming from unreliable unidentified or even nonexistent informants,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Josselyn v. Poirier“fail[s] to appreciate the essential differences between a disciplinary hearing and a criminal trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Street v. Rakiey
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.