Sher v. Coughlin

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a “determination of th[e] issue of hypothetical causation requires fact-finding”
• affirming summary judgment dismissal of prisoner’s retaliation claim where dual motivation existed for prisoner’s transfer to another facility
• “Mt. Healthy teaches that state action taken on the basis of both valid and invalid motivations is not constitutionally tainted by the invalid motive if the action would in any event have been taken on the constitutionally valid basis.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Graham v. Henderson
  Second Circuit· 1996-07-11· cited 470×
• Diesel v. Town of Lewisboro
  Second Circuit· 2000-11-09· cited 292×
• Lowrance v. Achtyl
  Second Circuit· 1994-03-29· cited 241×
• Proctor v. LeClaire
  Second Circuit· 2017-01-24· cited 240×
• Robert Walker v. L. Bates, Hearing Officer
  Second Circuit· 1994-04-29· cited 68×
• Klos v. Haskell
  Second Circuit· 1995-02-10· cited 45×
• Heil v. Santoro
  Second Circuit· 1998-06-03· cited 33×
• Lowrance v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1994-09-08· cited 26×
• Garrido v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1989-06-27· cited 24×
• Mescall v. Marra
  S.D. New York· 1999-06-11· cited 20×
• Heller v. Bedford Central School District
  S.D. New York· 2015-11-17· cited 20×
• Banks v. Mannoia
  N.D. New York· 1995-06-23· cited 14×
• Gomez v. Coughlin
  S.D. New York· 1988-04-20· cited 7×
• Baker v. Zlochowon
  S.D. New York· 1990-06-29· cited 7×
• Wright v. Coughlin
  W.D. New York· 1998-12-17· cited 6×
• Malik v. Miller
  W.D. New York· 1988-02-17· cited 5×
• Balabin v. Scully
  S.D. New York· 1985-01-31· cited 4×
• Medina v. Skowron
  W.D. New York· 2011-08-18· cited 3×
• Moore v. Gardner
  W.D. New York· 2002-03-12· cited 3×
• Ramsey v. Squires
  W.D. New York· 1995-03-03· cited 2×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wolff v. McDonnell
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-26· cited 12,327×
• Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-11· cited 7,445×
• Hewitt v. Helms
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 3,877×
• Meachum v. Fano
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-25· cited 3,743×
• Montanye v. Haymes
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-25· cited 1,017×
• John McCann Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. T. Coughlin, Iii, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees
  Second Circuit· 1983-01-06· cited 254×
• William L. McCrae v. W.T. Hankins
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-12-05· cited 121×
• Moorish Science Temple of America, Inc., and Bro. R. Smallwood-El v. Harold J. Smith
  Second Circuit· 1982-11-26· cited 69×
• Sher v. Coughlin
  Second Circuit· 1984-07-11· cited 64×
• Nathaniel Dudley, Individually, and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. D. Lamar Stewart
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-02-13· cited 45×
• Gregory A. Lucas v. Benny O. Hodges, Administrator, Lorton Reformatory
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-03-23· cited 35×
• Michael P. Parenti v. Joseph J. Ponte
  First Circuit· 1984-03-08· cited 29×
• Sher v. Stoughton
  Second Circuit· 1981-12-14· cited 20×