Eason v. Thaler’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.3d 1322 · 1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Willie Berry Jr v. Joseph Brady (1999), Moss v. BMC Software, Inc. (2010)
12 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Wolff v. McDonnell · Farmer v. Brennan · Daniels v. Williams
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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Sandin cites with approval cases in which it was held that state law could create a constitutional liberty interest in good-time credits, or release on parole, it is difficult to see that any other deprivations in the prison context, short of those that clearly impinge on the duration of confinement, will henceforth qualify for constitutional “liberty status”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dean v. Thomas“deemed to have abandoned this claim by not raising it in the brief he submitted ... in his original appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To comply with the Constitution, inmates must receive 'reasonably adequate' food.”
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.