Robert P. Sheley v. Richard L. Dugger, Robert A. Butterworth’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 1420 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Harris v. Thigpen (1991), Brown v. Crawford (1990)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Hewitt v. Helms
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“disciplinary charges or criminal charges”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rules and regulations concerning administrative segregation and close management create for inmates a liberty interest in remaining in the general prison population”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“goal of the Close Management Review Team shall be toward returning the inmate to open population as soon as the facts of the case suggest it can be safely done,”
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.