Gomez v. Coughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2006
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court held in Hewitt v. Helms, 459 U.S. 460, 468 , 103 S.Ct. 864, 869 , 74 L.Ed.2d 675 (1982) that the Constitution does not create a liberty interest to be free from prison administrative segregation, whether the purpose of the segregation is to protect the prisoner’s safety, to protect others from that prisoner, to break up potentially disruptive groups of inmates or to await later classification or transfer”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“twenty four hours’ advance written notice of the charges against him; a right to call witnesses and present documentary evidence in defense, unless doing so would jeopardize institutional safety or correctional goals; the aid of a staff member or inmate in presenting a defense, provided the inmate is illiterate or the issues are complex; and a written statement of reasons relied on by the tribunal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ven when the state creates such a protected liberty interest, the inmate confined for administrative reasons is entitled to only minimal process — “some notice of the charges against him and an opportunity to present his view to the prison official charged with deciding whether to transfer him to administrative segregation.””
1 later decision 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.