Benitez v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
985 F.2d 662 · 1993
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Ying Jing Gan v. City of New York (1993), Wright v. Smith (1994)
7 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 Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Anderson v. Creighton · Wolff v. McDonnell · Ratchford v. Gay Lib · Connie Robison v. Susan R. Via and Harold Harrison
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the right in question was defined with ‘reasonable specificity’; (2) whether the decisional law of the Supreme Court and applicable circuit court support the existence of the right in question; and (3) whether under preexisting law a reasonable defendant official would have understood that his or her acts were unlawful.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“compel `the charging officer to be [sufficiently] specific as to the misconduct with which the inmate is charged' to inform the inmate of what he is accused of doing so that he can prepare a defense to those charges and not be made to explain away vague charges set out in a misbehavior report.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”
2 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.