State ex rel. Blake v. Shoemaker’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State ex rel. Hattie v. Goldhardt (1994), Hattie v. Anderson (1994)
5 federal appellate · 44 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 Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Wagner v. Gilligan
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grant a parole to any prisoner, if in its judgment there is reasonable ground to believe that * * * such action would further the interests of justice and be consistent with the welfare and security of society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hattie v. Anderson“is a grant of discretion; it does not create any presumption that parole will be issued and does not create an expectancy of parole....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dotson v. Wilkinson
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.