Abdul-Wadood v. Duckworth’s Empirical Analysis
860 F.2d 280 · 1988
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Frazier v. Dubois (1990), Wallace v. Robinson (1991)
21 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Morrissey v. Brewer · Haines v. Kerner
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.
“The parties do not dispute that, if Abdul-Wadood had been in fact subjected to disciplinary action, he would have had at stake a liberty interest sufficient to invoke the protection of the due process clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. Robinson“the issue becomes whether the restrictions placed on [the inmate] were for the purpose of punishing him”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. Robinson“qualitatively equivalent to that experienced by prisoners [transferred] for disciplinary reasons”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wallace v. Robinson
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.