Flittie v. Solem’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 276 · 1987
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Franco v. Kelly (1988), Fair Employment Council of Greater Washington, Inc. v. BMC Marketing Corp. (1994)
43 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bounds v. Smith · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Johnson v. Avery
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“invidiously dissimilar from that accorded other inmates,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]rison officials may not retaliate against an inmate for exercising constitutional rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o create a liberty interest a state statute must place significant substantive restrictions on the decision making process. Dace v. Mickelson, 816 F.2d 1277, 1279-80 (8th Cir. 1987) (en banc). Additionally, the statute must contain mandatory language similar to that in the statutes in issue in Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex, 442 U.S. 1 , 99 S.Ct. 2100 , 60 L.Ed.2d 668 (1979). These “same standards apply to a review of a state rule, regulation, or practice ...” Dace v. Mickelson, 816 F.2d at 1279 .”
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.