Higgason v. Farley’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 807 · 1996
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably DeWalt v. Carter (2000), Babcock v. White (1996)
27 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 · Farmer v. Brennan · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Sandin v. Conner · Bounds v. Smith
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the State's action will inevitably affect the duration of the sentence, there is due process protection, but there is no such protection for action that merely might affect the duration of the sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a prisoner is transferred to another prison, his request for injunctive relief against officials of the first prison is moot unless 'he can demonstrate that he is likely to be retransferred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if [the prisoner] has been given the opportunity, it was not inevitable that he would complete an educational program and earn good time credits”
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.