Spruytte v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 498 · 1985
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably Sandin v. Conner (1995), Walker v. Mintzes (1985)
126 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Morrissey v. Brewer
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it appears beyond doubt that plaintiff can prove no set of facts which would entitle him to relief”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the context of a violation of due process, the critical distinction between regulations that bear upon the constitutional right and those that do not is collapsed into the distinction between regulations that give rise to the protected interest and regulations that merely provide what process is due once a protected interest has been found____ Violation of a state regulation that defines specific substantive predicates becomes relevant because state law determines whether a claimant has a protected interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A resident may receive any book, periodical, or other publication which does not present a threat to the order or security of the institution or to resident rehabilitation.”
2 later decisions 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.