Turney v. Scroggy’s Empirical Analysis
831 F.2d 135 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Viens v. Daniels (1989), Drye v. C Parke G Co Cto
16 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Wolff v. McDonnell · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Butz v. Economou
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“interfere with the discretion of the prison authorities to define offenses under their internal rules and to assign offenses in particular cases.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not our task nor the magistrate's to substitute credibility determinations contrary to the [disciplinary] committee's ultimate finding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Figueroa v. Vose
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.