Ryan v. Sargent’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 638 · 1992
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2013
10 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Bell v. Wolfish · Turner v. Safley · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Freitas v. Auger, 837 F.2d 806 , 810 (8th Cir. 1988) (citing Superintendent v. Hill, 472 U.S. 445 , 454-56 (1986) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] bald assertion by an unidentified person, without more, cannot constitute some evidence of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not require 'an independent assessment of the credibility of witnesses.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goff v. Burton
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.