389 F. Supp. 409 - Soloway v. Weger’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1990
7 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Dent v. State of West Virginia · United States ex rel. Johnson v. Chairman of New York State Board of Parole · Scarpa v. U. S. Board of Parole
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““if the Board is blindly adhering to a policy that a certain minimum amount of time must be served because of the severity of the statutory offense, it may well be arbitrary and capricious, an unwarranted intrusion into the judicial sentencing process, and in excess of the Board’s statutory authority.” Id. at 411 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“because of the type of offense for which he had been committed, the prisoner has not yet served an “appropriate period” of incarceration that satisfies unarticulated and possibly inconsistent views of Board members regarding community retribution, incapacitation, or general deterrence, despite the prisoner’s readiness for the community and lack of need for further institutional control,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““if, on the other hand, the Board reasoned that the circumstances of [the] petitioner’s particular offense and his involvement in it were so serious that his release would appear to diminish his culpability or depreciate the seriousness of this offense, then the Court would not attempt to second-guess that conclusion.” Id.”
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.