Baker v. Lyles’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 925 · 1990
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Wolff v. McDonnell · Gerstein v. Pugh · Hewitt v. Helms · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Great positive strides have been made in the modern administration of prisons, but the very nature of 'hard core’ prisons and those imprisoned there assures that a dark side sometimes lingers. Well-known is the harshness of inprison ‘justice’ administered by prisoners against each other, including infamous means for settling of scores based on jealousies, gang loyalties, and petty grievances. Unfortunately, there also still may be discrete instances wherein guards seek to retaliate against prisoners if they perceive that regular prison procedures will not adequately redress their grievances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Howard v. Wilkerson“receive some notice of the charges against him and an opportunity to present his views to the prison official charged with deciding whether to transfer him to administrative segregation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Massey v. Singleton“[t]his is not a case where the only evidence before the prison tribunal was the hearsay statement of an unidentified informant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Josselyn v. Poirier
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.