Phifer v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.3d 496 · 1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2012
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Jones v. Cunningham · Mabry v. Johnson · Lane v. Williams
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“possible discretionary actions that may or may not affect future parole decisions” are too”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.