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856 F.3d 508 · 2017

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
2
states following
February 2025
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Farmer v. Brennan · Bell v. Wolfish · Sandin v. Conner · 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is not sufficient for officials to go through the motions of nominally conducting a review meeting when they have developed a pre-review conclusion that the inmate will be confined in Ad Seg no matter what the evidence shows.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “an objective showing that the conditions are sufficiently serious- i.e. , that they deny the inmate 'the minimal civilized measure of life's necessities,' creating an excessive risk to the inmate's health and safety.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “The ICC has merely rubber-stamped Appellant's incarceration in [solitary confinement] (figuratively and sometimes literally), listing in rote repetition the same justification every 30 days....”
    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.