Pierson v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 161 · 1975
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Commonwealth v. Green (1990), William John Wirth v. R. R. Surles, Officer, State Highway Patrol (1977)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 United States v. Diebold, Inc. · In Re Schoengarth · 64 Cal. 2d 357 - In Re Patterson · Sanders v. Conine · Forester v. California Adult Authority
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]hat nothing in this section shall be deemed to limit the rights of the accused person to return voluntarily and without formality to the demanding state, nor shall this waiver procedure be deemed to be an exclusive procedure or to limit the powers, rights or duties of the officers of the demanding state or of this state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McBride v. Soos“[P]arole is an act of grace and . . . boards of parole have wide discretion to impose reasonable conditions in connection with parole. . . . [There must be a] specific showing of how such a condition was coercive as applied in the particular case.”
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.