Young v. Kenny’s Empirical Analysis
907 F.2d 874 · 1989
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Heck v. Humphrey (1994), Ramirez v. Galaza (2003)
81 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Rose v. Lundy · Baxter v. Palmigiano
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whenever the requested relief requires as its predicate a determination that a sentence currently being served is invalid or unconstitutionally long”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here a state prisoner challenges the fact or duration of his confinement, his sole federal remedy is a writ of habeas corpus”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is rooted in considerations of federal-state comity,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gates v. Iljana · Ramirez v. Galaza
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.