Sealey v. Coughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Sandin v. Conner · Hewitt v. Helms · Farrar v. Hobby · Meachum v. Fano
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff's testimony alone, without corroborating evidence, cannot establish a liberty interest. To rule otherwise would allow a plaintiff/inmate to meet the 'atypical' hardship threshold by merely testifying about some brutal conditions or treatment in SHU.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“failed to factually demonstrate that his administrative confinement in SHU was an atypical and significant hardship.”
1 later decision 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.