5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 91 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from McKune v. Lile.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McKune v. Lile Anchor | green | “it is well settled that the decision where to house inmates is at the core of prison administrators' expertise.” | 43 |
| 2 | Meachum v. Fano | green | “the conviction has sufficiently extinguished the defendant's liberty interest to empower the state to confine him in any of its prisons.” | 19 |
| 3 | Ronald Royce Lundy v. R. A. Osborn, Warden Fci | green | “only after such remedies are exhausted will the court entertain the application for relief in an appropriate case.” | 13 |
| 4 | Sandin v. Conner | green | “the due process clause did not itself create a liberty interest in prisoners to be free from intrastate prison transfers.” | 12 |
| 5 | Jose Didiel Munoz v. John Ashcroft, Attorney General | green | “since discretionary relief is a privilege . . ., denial of such relief cannot violate a substantive interest protected by the due process clause.” | 4 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.