Goff v. Dailey’s Empirical Analysis
991 F.2d 1437 · 1993
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Freeman v. Texas Department of Criminal Justice (2004), Goff v. Burton (1993)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Santosky v. Kramer · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Turner v. Safley
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This appeal presents an issue of first impression in the courts of appeals: can a prison disciplinary board find an inmate guilty of violating a prison rule or regulation on something less than a preponderance of the evidence?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Assuming for the sake of argument that the First Amendment protects speech like that at issue here, although we doubt such proposition, the prison officials still did not violate [Leonard's] rights under the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leonard v. Nix“[n]ot all deprivations of interests protected by the Fourteenth Amendment require full evidentiary hearings before impartial decision-makers using a preponderance of the evidence or higher standard.”
1 later decision 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.