Dawson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 896 · 1983
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill (1985), Sanchez v. Miller (1986)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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. § 4161 · 28 U.S.C. § 1404
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Hewitt v. Helms · McCollum v. Miller · Jackson v. Carlson
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contains ... sufficient additional information to bolster the reliability of the [confidential] information;”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“adopt[ed] the credibility determination made by the prison investigator.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKinney v. Meese · Niday v. State“[t]he reality is that disciplinary hearings and the imposition of disagreeable sanctions necessarily involve confrontations between inmates and authority and between inmates who are being disciplined and those who would charge or furnish evidence against them. Retaliation is much more than a theoretical possibility; and the basic and unavoidable task of providing reasonable personal safety for guards and inmates may be at stake, to say nothing of the impact of disciplinary confrontations and the resulting escalation of personal antagonisms on the important aims of the correctional process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morris v. Auger · Mendoza v. Miller
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.