Gavin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2011
2 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5010
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · North Carolina v. Pearce · Goldberg v. Kelly · Gagnon v. Scarpelli
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.
“appellate resentencing . . . bears some (although admittedly not exact) analogy to change of sentence after 'de novo' trial in a 'two tier' trial system”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gavin v. Chernoff
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.