Angel v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
59
cited by 59 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
10
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
8 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Gault · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Ake v. Oklahoma
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] State is not required to guarantee eventual freedom to a juvenile offender convicted of a nonhomicide crime,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person serving a sentence imposed upon a conviction for a felony offense, other than a Class 1 felony, (i) who has reached the age of sixty-five or older and who has served at least five years of the sentence imposed or (ii) who has reached the age of sixty or older and who has served at least ten years of the sentence imposed may petition the Parole Board for conditional release. The Parole Board shall promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of this section.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he regulations for conditional release under this statute provide that if the prisoner meets the qualifications for consideration contained in the statute, the factors used in the normal parole consideration process apply to conditional release decisions under this statute.”
5 later decisions 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.