Corgain v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 1241 · 1983
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Toussaint v. McCarthy (1986), Lawrence D. Caldwell v. Harold G. Miller, Warden (1986)
41 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 5003 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Haines v. Kerner · Faretta v. California · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bounds v. Smith
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prisoner has no federal liberty interest in remaining within the state prison system any more than he has such an interest in remaining at a particular institution within the state system.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It may be that some of the plans, as implemented in general or in individual cases, may prove to be deficient. In holding that the ... Washington [plan is] facially adequate, we do not prejudice the appellants' right to challenge the adequacy of the plan[] as implemented. That challenge, however, was not presented below and is not subject to our review at this time. (Emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Larue v. Fairman“Gomes ... was decided without the benefit of the Supreme Court's Meachum v. Fano analysis, which substantially undermines the Gomes underpinnings. The circuit in which Gomes originated recognized this and has retreated from Gomes, stating that in light of Meachum, the Gomes analysis would no longer be applied to interstate transfers.”
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.