Lyon’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), State v. Berard (1990)
1 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Hewitt v. Helms · Olim v. Wakinekona · James v. United States · Frances E. Porcher, Etc. v. Mary E. Brown, Etc.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inmates also claim that the district court committed error in determining that their due process rights were not violated by the failure of prison officials to reinstate them in their prison jobs with back pay. Inmates have no constitutional entitlement to tenure in prison jobs. Garza v. Miller, 688 F.2d 480, 486 (7th Cir. 1982), cert. denied, _ U.S ___ 103 S.Ct 796 , 74 L.Ed.2d 1000 (1983); see Gibson v. McEvers, 631 F.2d 95, 98 (7th Cir. 1980). Whatever liberty or property interests inhere in prison employment are the product of state law. Peck v. Hoff, 660 F.2d 371, 373 (8th Cir. 1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Grammer“It is apparent ... that the actions of the prison officials were justified in light of the legitimate objectives of the prison system. In Lyon v. Farrier, 727 F.2d 766, 769 (8th Cir.1984), this court held that, although prisoners retain some fourth amendment rights while in prison, these rights are limited by institutional security needs and the prisoner’s reduced expectation of privacy.”
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.