Shelly v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 228 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Ramirez v. Oklahoma Department of Mental Health (1994), Dixon v. Clem (2007)
12 federal appellate ·
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 Butz v. Economou · Cleavinger v. Saxner · King v. Wells · 684 F. Supp. 941 - Shelly v. Johnson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an attorney especially appointed to conduct prison disciplinary hearings as a full time judicial officer, wholly independent of the warden and other prison officials ... [and] guided by strict statutory procedural rules....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“subject to disqualification at the request of an inmate upon a showing of bias or other valid reasons”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“duties with respect to testimony of witnesses and admission of evidence are delineated in detail”
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.