Prieto v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] court cannot conclude that death row inmates have a state-created interest in consideration for non-solitary confinement when the State’s established written policy expressly precludes such consideration.”); Smith v. Coughlin, 748 F.2d 783 , 787 (2d Cir. 1984) (“[I]n light of [state law], which expressly mandated his confinement [on death row], appellant had no basis to claim to be the beneficiary of any state-created liberty interest.”); Parker v. Cook, 642 F.2d 865 , 874 n.7 (5th Cir. 1981) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Williams v. Secretary Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

2. “A liberty interest may arise from the Constitution itself, by reason of guarantees implicit in the word 'liberty' ... or it may arise from an expectation or interest created by state laws or policies.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Halcomb v. Ravenal

3. “To state a procedural due process violation, a plaintiff must (1) identify a protected liberty or property interest and (2) demonstrate deprivation of that interest without due process of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Halcomb v. Ravenal