165 W. Va. 55 - Tasker v. Mohn’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 176 W. Va. 338 - Crain v. Bordenkircher (1986), 170 W. Va. 230 - Rowe v. W. Va. Dept. of Corrections (1982)
32 state decisions
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process requires that parole release interview processes include the following minimum standards: (1) Each prospective parolee must be given timely and adequate notice of the date and hour of his parole release interview; (2) An inmate is entitled to access to information in his record which will be used to determine whether he receives parole (absent overriding security considerations which must be recorded in his file); (3) Each inmate may personally appear before the parole board and give oral and documentary evidence; (4) A record, which is capable of being reduced to writing, must be made of each parole release interview to allow judicial review; and (5) Inmates to whom parole has been denied are entitled to written statements of the reasons for denial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(d) When considering a penitentiary prisoner for release on parole, the board of parole shall have before it an authentic copy of or report on the prisoner’s current criminal record as provided through the department of public safety of West Virginia, the United States department of justice or other reliable criminal information sources and written reports of the warden or superintendent of the penitentiary, as the case may be, to which such prisoner is sentenced: (1) On the prisoner’s conduct record while in prison, including a detailed statement showing any and all infractions of prison rules by the prisoner and the nature and extent of discipline and punishment administered therefor; (2) On improvement or other changes noted in the prisoner’s mental and moral condition while in prison, including a statement expressive of the prisoner’s current attitude toward society in general, toward the judge who sentenced him, toward the prosecuting attorney who prosecuted him, toward the policeman or other officer who arrested him and toward the crime for which he is under sentence and his previous criminal record; (3) On the prisoner’s industrial record while in prison, showing the nature of his prison work or occupation and the average number of hours per day he has been employed in prison industry and recommending the nature and kinds of employment which he is best fitted to perform and in which he is most likely to succeed when he leaves prison; (4) On physical, mental and psychia”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The decision to grant or deny parole is a discretionary evaluation by the [parole] board based on a prisoner's record and its expertise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.