Goff v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 358 · 1986
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Michenfelder v. Sumner (1988), Watt v. City of Richardson Police Department (1988)
27 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Katz v. United States · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Estelle v. Gamble · Wolff v. McDonnell
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjrips outside the confines of the prison for court appearances raise ... serious security problems. Friends or relatives of the inmate frequently are aware of court dates. While inmates may be well guarded and closely observed, the public nature of courts and the frequently crowded surroundings make the presence of a weapon that the inmate has managed to smuggle with him or that someone else has managed to secrete for him particularly dangerous.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Judgments regarding prison security “are peculiarly within the province and professional expertise of corrections officials, and, in the absence of substantial evidence in the record to indicate that the officials have exaggerated their response to these considerations, courts should ordinarily defer to their expert judgment in such matters.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“particularly in regard to 'the adoption and execution of policies and practices that in their judgment are needed to preserve internal order and discipline and to maintain institutional security.'”
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.