Grayson v. Rison’s Empirical Analysis
945 F.2d 1064 · 1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2015
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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
Relies on Hewitt v. Helms · Meachum v. Fano · Montanye v. Haymes · Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n v. Gibbons · Redman v. County of San Diego
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It doesn’t matter what label is placed on the action or what other reasons may be behind it; nor is it relevant that the conditions of confinement may become less pleasant as a result. We must allow prison officials the freedom to exercise their administrative authority without judicial oversight. Some administrative actions will inevitably make prisoners feel cheated; nevertheless, this does not give them a federal cause of action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rowe v. Hurley · Hagan v. Tirado“Administrative detention is the status of confinement of an inmate in a special housing unit in a cell either by self or with other inmates which serves to remove the inmate from the general population.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rowe v. Hurley“[P]rison officials have broad administrative and discretionary authority over the institutions they manage and lawfully incarcerated persons retain only a narrow range of protected liberty interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rowe v. Hurley
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.