167 W. Va. 668 - Rowe v. Whyte’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2016
19 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 165 W. Va. 55 - Tasker v. Mohn · 423 F. Supp. 1190 - Sites v. McKenzie
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he decision to grant or deny parole is a discretionary evaluation to be made by the West Virginia [Parole Board]. However, such a decision shall be reviewed by this Court to determine if the [Parole Board] abused its discretion by acting in an arbitrary and capricious fashion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“beyond the ability of the petitioner to modify after his incarceration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. Our parole statute, W.Va.Code, 62-12-13 (1979), creates a reasonable expectation interest in parole to those prisoners meeting its objective criteria. 3. Release on parole is a substantial liberty interest and the procedures by which it is granted or denied must satisfy due process standards. 4. Due process requires that parole release interview processes include the following minimum standards: ... (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); ... (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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.