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Dilworth v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

841 F.3d 246 · 2016

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Sandin v. Conner · Hewitt v. Helms · Kingsley v. Hendrickson

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “retain a liberty interest in freedom from 'punishment,' " so that "discrete 'punitive measures' imposed during pretrial detention intrude on a protected liberty interest.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “(1) imposed with an expressed intent to punish or (2) not reasonably related to a legitimate nonpunitive governmental objective.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “implicated a liberty interest triggering procedural due process requirements; and, if so, whether the procedures”
    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.