Goff v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
91 F.3d 1188 · 1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2019
5 federal appellate ·
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 Heck v. Humphrey · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Hebert v. Brown · Goff v. Burton · Freitas v. Auger
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not require examination of the entire record, independent assessment of the credibility of witnesses, or weighing of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must prove that a desire to retaliate was the actual motivating factor behind the transfer.”
1 later decision 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.