Francis v. Coughlin

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• denying qualified immunity to a defendant because as a prison official, he must be “charged with the knowledge of relevant decisional law,” and thus, should have been aware of the Second Circuit’s case law that had clearly established the right advanced by the plaintiff
• \[A] plaintiff-inmate armed with nothing more than conclusory allegations of bias and prejudgment should not be able to defeat a well-supported motion for summary judgment\
• “[I]t would be improper for prison officials to decide the disposition of a case before it was heard.”
• “[I]t would be improper for prison officials to decide the disposition of a case before it was heard.”
• “at a minimum, a prisoner is entitled to be confronted with the accusation, informed of the evidence against him . . . and afforded a reasonable opportunity to explain his actions”
• “[A] 14 prisoner is entitled to be . . . informed of the evidence against him . . . .” (quoting Nieves v. 15 Oswald, 477 F.2d 1109, 1113 (2d Cir. 1973)

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Cited by

95 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Behrens v. Pelletier
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-21· cited 2,084×
• Rubin Sira v. R. Morton, C. Artuz, D. Selsky, and G. Goord
  Second Circuit· 2004-08-17· cited 739×
• Ying Jing Gan v. The City Of New York
  Second Circuit· 1993-06-01· cited 174×
• Jermosen v. Smith
  Second Circuit· 1991-10-01· cited 166×
• Kevin Richardson v. Donald Selsky, Clement Capuano, William Fenton, Bernard Lonczak
  Second Circuit· 1993-09-22· cited 157×
• Cusamano v. Sobek
  N.D. New York· 2009-01-26· cited 141×
• Tellier v. Fields
  Second Circuit· 2000-11-01· cited 107×
• Allen v. Cuomo
  Second Circuit· 1996-11-07· cited 106×
• Steven L. Eads v. Craig A. Hanks
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-02-05· cited 95×
• Vega v. Artus
  N.D. New York· 2009-03-26· cited 85×
• Russell v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1990-08-02· cited 82×
• Emmanuel D. Patterson v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III Charles P. Hemandy Harold J. Smith N. Desantos
  Second Circuit· 1990-05-16· cited 81×
• African Trade & Information Center, Inc., Mohamoud D. Ahmed, and Alan W. Gates v. James F. Abromaitis
  Second Circuit· 2002-05-23· cited 76×
• Cespedes v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1997-02-07· cited 70×
• Shechter v. Comptroller of City of New York
  Second Circuit· 1996-03-21· cited 68×
• Charles W. v. Maul
  Second Circuit· 2000-06-05· cited 65×
• Kaminsky v. Rosenblum
  Second Circuit· 1991-04-09· cited 63×
• Vogelfang v. Capra
  S.D. New York· 2012-03-13· cited 59×
• Weaver v. Brenner
  Second Circuit· 1994-10-26· cited 48×
• Russell v. Scully
  Second Circuit· 1993-06-04· cited 42×

Other cases named Francis v. Coughlin

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Francis v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1988-06-20· cited 30×
• Francis v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1986-06-09
• Francis v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1991-01-29