Stokes v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Where the Deputy Commissioner for Classification and Treatment or the Superintendent or his designee determines at any time prior to or during [a proceeding for reclassification to a higher custody status] that there is an immediate threat to the health or safety of the resident or to others, the resident may be placed in an awaiting action status until there is a final decision about a transfer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Smith v. Massachusetts Department of Correction

2. “regulations[] created a liberty interest entitling [a prisoner] to procedural due process in the initiation and continuance in awaiting action - 58 - C. To make that showing, Perry argues that the conditions of his confinement were "on all fours with those in Wilkinson, and where they deviated, they were more severe,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Perry v. Spencer

3. “that the repeated use of explicitly mandatory language in connection with requiring specific substantive predicates demands a conclusion that the State has created a protected liberty interest.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rodi v. Ventetuolo