Liistro v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Horton v. Meskill (1977), State v. Nardini (1982)
3 federal appellate · 73 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Goldberg v. Kelly · Roe v. Wade · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Dandridge 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a question of constitutionality is raised, courts must approach it with caution, examine it with care, and sustain the legislation unless its invalidity is clear. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“retake and reimprison any convict upon parole, for any reason that such panel, or the commissioner with the approval of the panel, deems sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“principle that `[w]e have no choice but to interpret the statutes as they are written.' Mancinone v. Warden, 162 Conn. 430 , 439 , 294 A.2d 564 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lavorgna
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.