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891 F.2d 38 · 1989

Citation profile

89
cited by 89 later decisions
1
states following
March 2010
most recently cited

28 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Wright v. Smith (1994), Lowrance v. Achtyl (1994)

28 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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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

Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Hewitt v. Helms · Armstrong v. Manzo

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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a form of administrative segregation in which the inmate is confined to his cell, deprived of participation in normal prison routine, and denied contact with other inmates.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “an informal, non-adversary review of the information supporting [the inmate's] administrative confinement, including whatever statement [the inmate] wished to submit,”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[E]ven when the state creates such a protected liberty interest, the inmate confined for administrative reasons is entitled to only minimal process — “some notice of the charges against him and an opportunity to present his view to the prison official charged with deciding whether to transfer him to administrative segregation.””
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.