Roucchio v. Coughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2014
3 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Scheuer v. Rhodes
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.
“The liberty associated with a life outside the walls of a penal facility dwarfs that avail able to an inmate. “It is the freedom to 'be gainfully employed,’ 'to be with family and friends,’ and ‘to form the other attachments of normal life.' ... It is the ability to reside in a home or one's own, without bars or fences or bonds, beyond the immediate authority of guards or wardens.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“atypical and significant hardship on the inmate in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the jurisprudential landscape was leveled”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pifer v. Marshall
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.