Smith v. Noonan’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 987 · 1993
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Qualls v. Blue Cross Of California (1994), 123 Wash. 2d 138 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Cashaw (1994)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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. § 1988
Relies on Hewitt v. Helms · Olim v. Wakinekona · Porzig v. Nolden · Wrenn v. Ohio Department of Mental Health · Honig v. Doe
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it places substantive limitations on the exercise of official discretion,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carr v. Lewis · Richey v. Riveland“A liberty interest may arise from the due process clause or be created by state law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'procedural requirements, even if mandatory, do[es] not raise a constitutionally cognizable liberty interest.' " Smith, 992 F.2d at 989 (citing Toussaint v. McCarthy, 801 F.2d 1080, 1098 (9th Cir.1986), cert. denied, 481 U.S. 1069 (1987)). 4 Mujahid, who was classified at "maximum”
2 later decisions 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.