Moorman v. Thalacker’s Empirical Analysis
83 F.3d 970 · 1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Freitas v. Ault (1997), Kennedy v. Blankenship (1996)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Heck v. Humphrey · Malley v. Briggs · Sandin v. Conner
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a dramatic departure from the basic conditions”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the type of atypical, significant deprivation in which a state might conceivably create a liberty interest.”
1 later decision 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.