Otey v. Stenberg’s Empirical Analysis
34 F.3d 635 · 1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2013
5 federal appellate ·
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 Rochin v. People of California · Albright v. Oliver · Collins v. City of Harker Heights · In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[w]hen a commutation statute does not impose standards constraining the discretion of the board as to when clemency must be granted, the statute does not create a constitutional right or entitlement sufficient to invoke the Due Process Clause.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not create a protectable interest in the manner in which the Board receives [a] request or in having unbiased decisionmakers on the Board.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unfettered discretion to grant or deny a commutation of a lawfully imposed sentence for any reason or for no reason at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.