Young v. Kenny’s Empirical Analysis
887 F.2d 237 · 1989
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Rose v. Lundy · Baxter v. Palmigiano · Tower v. Glover
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he requested relief requires as its predicate a determination that a sentence currently being served is invalid,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holden v. Babcock
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.