Goff v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 734 · 1993
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Henry Rauser v. Martin Horn in His Official Capacity As Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (2001), San Filippo v. Bongiovanni (1994)
55 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 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 Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Meachum v. Fano · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Olim v. Wakinekona · Yagow v. United States
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "for whatever reason or for no reason at all.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“but for an unconstitutional, retaliatory motive the transfer would not have occurred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]n raising a retaliatory transfer claim, the prisoner must “ ‘face a substantial burden in attempting to prove that the actual motivating factor for his transfer’” was the impermissible retaliation. Murphy, 769 F.2d at 503 n. 1 (quoting McDonald v. Hall, 610 F.2d 16, 18 (1st Cir.1979)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sisneros v. Nix
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.