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← 166 F.3d 267 - Hawkins v. Freeman

Hawkins v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis

166 F.3d 267 · 1999

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 2001
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Teague v. Lane · Daniels v. Williams · County of Sacramento v. Lewis

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that of a prisoner to remain free on erroneously granted parole so long as he did not contribute to or know of the error and has for an appreciable time remained on good behavior to the point that his expectations for continued freedom from re-incarceration have crystallized.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “it might be fundamentally unfair ... to alter even an illegal sentence in a way which frustrates a prisoner's expectations [of release].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “career street criminal who will continue to commit street crimes once he is out of prison.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.