Culbert v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 624 · 1987
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Cain v. Lane (1988), Forbes v. Trigg (1992)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Hewitt v. Helms · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Vitek v. Jones
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“severity of the charges and the complexity of the factual circumstances and proof offered by both sides.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only issue presented at the hearing [is] an assessment of the conduct report and the plaintiff's account of the incident.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be employed ... and that [the challenged action] will not occur absent specific substantive predicates.'”
4 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.