Beard v. Livesay’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 874 · 1986
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Newsom v. Norris (1989), Doe v. Sullivan County (1992)
55 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Hewitt v. Helms · 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] State creates a protected liberty interest by placing substantial limitations on official discretion. An inmate must show ‘that particularized standards or criteria guide the State’s decisionmakers.’ [citations omitted] If the decisionmaker is not ‘required to base its decisions on objective and defined criteria,’ but instead ‘can deny the requested relief for any constitutionally permissible reason or for no reason at all,’ [citations omitted] the State has not created a constitutionally protected liberty interest.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“statutes or prison policy statements have limited prison officials' discretion by imposing a specific prerequisite to the forfeiture of benefits....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by using `mandatory language' in connection with `specific substantive predicates,' a liberty interest may be found.”
3 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.