Giano v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2005
1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Wolff v. McDonnell · Townsend v. Sain · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Tumey v. State of Ohio
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he inmate facing disciplinary proceedings should be allowed to call witnesses and present documentary evidence in his defense when permitting him to do so will not be unduly hazardous to institutional safety or correctional goals. Ordinarily, the right to present evidence is basic to a fair hearing. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young II v. Kann“unconstitutionally denied his right to marshal evidence and present a defense to the disciplinary charges against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young II v. Kann“We decline to apply harmless error analysis to the constitutional defects in petitioner's disciplinary hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobs v. Stephens
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.