Cain v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
857 F.2d 1139 · 1988
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Woods v. Smith (1995), Becker v. Tenenbaum-Hill Associates, Inc. (1990)
57 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Hewitt v. Helms · Shango v. Jurich · Benson v. Cady
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 223 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a chronology of events from which retaliation may plausibly be inferred”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be invalidated by evidence that they were retaliatory in nature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The adoption of a statutory or regulatory framework for administrative segregation creates a liberty interest only where the procedural guidelines contain statutory language “of an unmistakably mandatory character, requiring that certain procedures ‘shall’, ‘will’ or ‘must’ be employed ... [t]he test for whether a statutory or regulatory procedure creates a protectable due process interest, then, hinges on the actual language used by the legislature or agency ... [ajbsent some statutory or regulatory provision that clearly limits prison officials in the exercise of their discretion, a prisoner may be transferred for any reason or no reason at all.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hawkins v. O'LEARY · Russ v. Young
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.