Mathews v. Fairman’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 409 · 1985
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Hewitt v. Helms · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Meachum v. Fano
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prison administrators must be 'accorded wide-ranging deference in the ... execution of policies and practices that in their judgment are needed to preserve internal order and discipline and to maintain institutional security.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russ v. Young · Pardo v. Hosier“a change in assignment may be made for three reasons only: (1) the inmate's inability or incompetence in completing a work, training, or study assignment; (2) an inmate's violation of a rule after the inmate has been adjudged guilty in accordance with the provisions of A.R. 804 (governing the administration of discipline); or (3) placement in segregation under the provisions of A.R. 804.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beard v. Livesay“[i]n determining whether a prison official's action is disciplinary in nature, [we] distinguish[ ] between 'what is essentially a predictive decision based on assessment of a prisoner's entire institutional record and a decision in response to a specific rule infraction.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. Robinson
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.