Rooding v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4161 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Heck v. Humphrey · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Preiser v. Rodriguez · 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Plaintiff] Rooding’s action, if successful, will neither demonstrate nor necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction or sentence. He does not challenge his conviction for criminal damage to property or his one year sentence. Rather, he challenges the manner in which Peters administered his sentence. Moreover, and perhaps most importantly, he is no longer a prisoner, and “individuals not ‘in custody’ cannot invoke federal habeas jurisdiction, the only statutory mechanism besides § 1983 by which individuals may sue state officials in federal court for violating federal rights. That would be an untoward result.” Heck, 512 U.S. at 500 , 114 S.Ct. at 2379 (Souter, J., concurring).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rooding v. Peters
How this case has been treated — in progress
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