Rasheed-Bey v. Duckworth’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 357 · 1992
Citation profile
38 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States v. Montgomery (1994), Piggie v. Cotton (2003)
38 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Hewitt v. Helms · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Baxter v. Palmigiano · 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) advance (at least 24 hours before hearing) notice of the claimed violation; (2) the opportunity to be heard before an impartial decision maker; (3) the opportunity to call witnesses and present documentary evidence (when consistent with institutional safety); and (4) a written statement by the fact-finder of the evidence relied on and the reasons for the disciplinary action.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The plaintiffs] principal objection to his hearing is that he did not receive the contents of [a certain file.] He mistakenly equates this nondisclosure with not being provided any of the facts upon which his charges were based. See Dawson v. Smith, 719 F.2d 896 (7th Cir.1983) (prisoner must have notice of facts on which charges are based so he can prepare a defense). As noted above, however, [the plaintiff] was notified of the underlying factual bases of his charges through the conduct and investigative reports so that he could prepare a defens,e to those charges. Furthermore, prison regulation provided [the plaintiff] an opportunity to request a further summary of ... [the] investigation, but he did not make that request even though he testified that he was familiar with and had access to the policy manual.... Finally, the district court concluded that [the plaintiff] was not entitled to the contents of [the abovemen-tioned] confidential file ... because the information therein was not exculpatory and because the information was sufficiently reliable. See Mendoza, 779 F.2d at 1293 . Our own review of the record in this case provides abundant support for the district court’s findings on these related issues. As the district court noted, the file’s contents were not patently exculpatory because the evidence (other letters with [the plaintiff’s] name on them regarding altered money orders) was more likely to hurt [the plaintiffs] case than to help it. Moreover, we are assured”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.