Spina v. Aaron’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 1126 · 1987
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Stephenson v. Reno (1994), Bagley v. CMC Real Estate Corp. (1991)
24 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Preiser v. Rodriguez · Carlson v. Green · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio · Fulford v. Klein · Fulford v. Klein
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“core issue in determining whether a prisoner must pursue habeas corpus relief rather than a civil rights action is ... whether the prisoner challenges the `fact or duration' of his confinement or merely challenges the rules, customs, and procedures affecting `conditions' of confinement,”
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.