Wagner v. Williford’s Empirical Analysis
804 F.2d 1012 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Hensley v. Wilson (1988), White v. Nix (1994)
18 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Solem v. Stumes · Figueroa v. United States · Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International v. Thurston
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the oath of the investigating officer as to the truth of his report containing confidential information and his appearance before the disciplinary committee; (2) corroborating testimony; (3) a statement on the record by the chairman of the disciplinary committee that, “he had first hand knowledge of the sources of the information and considered them reliable on the basis of ‘their past record of reliability,’ ” or (4) in camera review of material documenting the investigator’s assessment of the credibility of the confidential informant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKinney v. Meese“[t]he objective must always be to provide defense counsel with as much information as possible ... [and] there may have been some quantum of information that would have assisted petitioner's attorney, yet would not if revealed necessarily have led to identification of the informants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wagner v. Henman“make full use of procedures such as redaction in order to fashion an appropriate compromise between the inmate's right to effective assistance of counsel and the necessity of protecting informant anonymity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wagner v. Henman
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.