Birzon v. King’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 1241 · 1972
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Wolff v. McDonnell (1974), Farrell v. Burke (2006)
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Connally v. General Construction Co. · United States v. James Griggs Raines · Sproles v. Binford · Arciniega v. Freeman
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably and necessarily related to the Government's legitimate interests in the parolee's activities”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the board had no way of knowing how reliable the informants were and had no real basis on which to resolve the credibility issue against the parolee and conclude that he did in fact violate [a] condition ... of his parole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he parole condition restricting association was [not] intended to apply to incidental contacts between ex-convicts in the course of work on a legitimate job for a common employer.”
2 later decisions 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.