Smith v. Shettle’s Empirical Analysis
946 F.2d 1250 · 1991
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Antonelli v. Sheahan (1996), Villanova v. Abrams (1992)
45 federal appellate · 5 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 Bell v. Wolfish · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Hewitt v. Helms · Olim v. Wakinekona · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prisoner has no natural liberty to mingle with the general prison population”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a prisoner has no natural liberty to mingle with the general prison population. Only if the state decides to recognize such a liberty--a liberty that is artificial, therefore, rather than natural--does he have a right that he can enforce under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some ongoing review of the status of inmates placed in administrative segregation.”
3 later decisions 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.