Garner v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
195 federal appellate · 112 district · 239 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 961 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably 29 Cal. 4th 616 - In Re Rosenkrantz (2002), 133 S. Ct. 2072 - Peugh v. United States (2013)
195 federal appellate · 112 district · 239 state decisions — followed in 29 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Penson v. Ohio · Weaver v. Graham · Collins v. Youngblood · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Miller v. Florida
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 961 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“significant risk of increasing his punishment.”
70 later decisions quote this exact passage“our analysis rests upon the premise that the Board exercises its discretion in accordance with its assessment of each inmate's likelihood of release between reconsideration dates. If the assessment later turns out not to hold true for particular inmates, they may invoke the policy the Parole Board has adopted to permit expedited consideration in the event of a change in circumstances.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether it produces a sufficient risk of increasing the measure of punishment attached to the covered crimes.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.