Luken v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.3d 192 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Abed v. Commissioner of Correction (1996), Harper v. Showers (1999)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Sandin v. Conner · Meachum v. Fano · Rodriguez v. Phillips
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discipline in segregated confinement did not present the type of atypical, significant deprivation in which a state might conceivably create a liberty interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he chance that a finding of misconduct will alter the balance is simply too attenuated to invoke the procedural guarantees of the Due Process Clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affect the duration of his sentence since the decision to release a prisoner on parole”
2 later decisions 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.