Young v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
970 F.2d 1154 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Cespedes v. Coughlin (1997), Walker v. Bates (1994)
14 federal appellate · 1 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 · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson · Colony Square Co. v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Freeman v. Rideout · Booker v. Mississippi
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he administrative reversal constituted part of the due process protection he received, and it cured any procedural defect that may have occurred. We believe that, as a policy matter, this possibility of cure through the administrative appeals process will encourage prison administrators to correct errors as an alternative to forcing inmates to seek relief in state or federal courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he penalty and recommended loss of good time were vacated and the records of the hearing were expunged. Young never served a day of the penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Bates“suffered no interference with a liberty interest and ha[d] no valid claim for relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Bates
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.