Carter v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Sandin v. Conner · Collins v. City of Harker Heights · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that a particular governmental decision does not implicate a constitutionally protected interest, such as a liberty or property interest, does not mean that there are no restrictions on the manner in which the government may make that decision. A governmental decision may still not be made in an ‘arbitrary or constitutionally impermissible’ fashion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently severe to shock the conscience,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“involved an inmate's eligibility for parole.”
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.