Saenz v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1172 · 1987
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Forbes v. Trigg (1992), Culbert v. Young (1987)
34 federal appellate · 6 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Chavis v. Rowe · Redding v. Fairman · Hayes v. Thompson
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'believe[ ] the conduct report and disbelieve[ ] the [prisoner].'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Newkirk · May v. Meloy“Officer Fabry's written statement supports the finding of guilt that an attempt was made by inmate Saenz to commit battery upon the [other] inmate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the charge is complex and the [disciplinary tribunal] fails to explain its findings, the reviewing court will find it difficult and maybe impossible to determine whether the [tribunal] on the one hand found facts showing that the prisoner really was guilty of the charge, or on the other hand based the finding of guilt on erroneous legal premises.”
2 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.