Williams v. Fountain’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 372 · 1996
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Giakoumelos v. Coughlin (1996), Cespedes v. Coughlin (1997)
10 federal appellate · 5 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Sandin v. Conner · Hewitt v. Helms · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Paulussen v. Herion
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[An] inmate can only claim a due process violation if he can show deprivation of a protected liberty interest, and that such interests are generally limited to (a) those actions that unexpectedly alter the inmate’s term of imprisonment; and (b) those actions that impose an atypical and significant hardship in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sufficient evidentiary basis . . . then procedural due process concerns would be allayed.”
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.