Mayo v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 374 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably Wilkins v. May (1989), Griffin v. Strong (1993)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right to visit a person is not the kind of fundamental interest protected by the due process clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[Plaintiff] sensibly does not argue that a person’s natural liberty ... is infringed when he or she is forbidden to enter a prison. It is imprisonment that robs a person of natural liberty — not exclusion from prison____ [Plaintiff] argues that her natural liberty includes a right of association with members of her family, such as [her] grandnephew [who was an inmate in the prison], and that this right in turn comprehends the right to visit him in prison. This is not a frivolous argument. The concept of liberty in the Fourteenth Amendment has been held to embrace a right to associate with one’s relatives. [Citations omitted.] But it is a slight argument, for reasons well discussed in a case factually similar to the present one, White v. Keller, 438 F.Supp. 110, 120 (D.Md.1977), aff'd per curiam, 588 F.2d 913 (4th Cir.1978). Prison necessarily disrupts the normal pattern of familial association, so lawful imprisonment can hardly be thought a deprivation of the right of relatives to associate with the imprisoned criminal. Cf. O’Bannon v. Town Court Nursing Center, 447 U.S. 773, 788 , 100 S.Ct. 2467, 2476-77 , 65 L.Ed.2d 506 (1980) (“members of a family who have been dependent on an errant father ... may suffer serious trauma if he is deprived of his liberty or property as a consequence of criminal proceedings, but surely they have no constitutional right to participate in his trial or sentencing procedures”). More fundamentally, the person with the primary stake in the deprivat”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, the private interest that will be affected by the official action; second, the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such an interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards; and finally, the government’s interest, including the function involved and the fiscal and administrative burdens that the additional or substitute procedural safeguards would entail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.