Harris v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
737 F.2d 662 · 1984
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Whitford v. Boglino (1995), Williams v. Lane (1988)
11 federal appellate ·
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 Hewitt v. Helms · Meachum v. Fano · Olim v. Wakinekona · Vitek v. Jones · Montanye v. Haymes
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Seventh Circuit recently stated: It is equally well established, however, that state statutes, practices, or duly promulgated prison regulations may create liberty interests deserving of the" procedural protection of the Due Process Clause. If state statutes or prison regulations condition transfer on the occurrence of specific events, such as misconduct, a liberty interest is created.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[confinement in any of the State’s institutions is within the normal limits or range of custody which the conviction has authorized the State to impose. That life in one prison is more disagreeable than in another does not in itself signify that a Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest is implicated when a prisonor is transferred to the institution with the more severe rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state created procedural right is not itself a liberty interest within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mathews v. Fairman
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.