William E. Baker v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.2d 372 · 1976
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Penn (1983), United States v. McCallum (1982)
16 federal appellate · 4 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly · Chambers v. Mississippi · 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Morrissey exception to the right of confrontation and cross-examination applies to cases where ‘the hearing officer specifically finds good cause for not allowing confrontation.’ In order to come within the exception there must be an explicit, specific finding of such good cause, and the reasons should be stated in the record of the revocation hearing. (Footnote omitted.)”
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.