Matiyn v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 31 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Wright v. Smith (1994), Rodriguez v. Phillips (1995)
19 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Wolff v. McDonnell · Hewitt v. Helms · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Meachum v. Fano
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ven when the state creates such a protected liberty interest, the inmate confined for administrative reasons is entitled to only minimal process — “some notice of the charges against him and an opportunity to present his view to the prison official charged with deciding whether to transfer him to administrative segregation.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state itself has acknowledged that liberty interests are at stake with respect to the proceeding at issue. Indeed, [by enacting § 304.3] it has limited the discretion of its prison officials with respect to the commitment of inmates to involuntary protective custody in special housing units by requiring that, within 14 days of such admission, a proceeding with procedural safeguards must be conducted to determine whether there is substantial evidence that protective custody is necessary. (Citations omitted). Having conditioned such confinement on a finding that protective custody is necessary, the state cannot now properly claim that no liberty interest is at stake.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no constitutionally based liberty interest that entitles a prisoner to a hearing or any other safeguards before being transferred from one prison to another, absent a state law or regulation conditioning such transfer on proof of misbehavior or other specified events.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McFadden v. State
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.