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Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson

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Abrogated
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
490 U.S. 454
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
92 of 92
Citing cases (total)
2,461
Treatment dates
1995
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson has been abrogated in part: all 92 flagged citations have been read, and the 1 confirmed treatment is listed below. Sandin v. Conner abandoned Thompson's mandatory-language methodology for identifying prison-created liberty interests and substituted an atypical-and-significant-hardship inquiry.
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Sandin did not disturb Thompson's no-liberty-interest result or its general two-step due-process framework. Later opinions applied those surviving rules or merely repeated Sandin history; other adverse phrases concerned unrelated authorities.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

2,461 later cases cite Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson; 92 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court abandoned Thompson's mandatory-language methodology for prison-created liberty interests while leaving its result intact.

    Sandin v. Conner · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Such abandonment of Hewitt’s methodology does not technically require us to overrule any holding of this Court. The Court in Olim v. Wakinekona, 461 U. S. 238 (1983), and Kentucky Dept. of Corrections v. Thompson, 490 U. S. 464 (1989), concluded no liberty interest was at stake.
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