Lyon v. Farrier’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 525 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Nash v. Black (1986), Claire Bilida v. Andrew McCleod (2000)
13 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Bell v. Wolfish · Hewitt v. Helms · McNeil v. Director, Patuxent Institution · Burns v. Swenson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`due process rights of prisoners and pretrial detainees [against the deprivation of their property without due process of law] are not absolute; they are subject to reasonable limitation or retraction in light of the legitimate security concerns of the institution.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'that they received treatment which was invidiously dissimilar to that received by other inmates,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cody v. Hillard · Nash v. Black
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.