Rowe v. Cuyler’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2008
2 district · 2 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 Haines v. Kerner · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Cruz v. Beto · Anderson Et Al. v. Winsett · Winsett v. McGinnes
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he three factors mentioned [by plaintiff as having been improperly considered] are but a small cluster out of a galaxy of considerations which might legitimately figure in a decision to grant or deny pre-release status_ This is unavoidable, for no two prisoners, being different human beings, will possess identical backgrounds and characteristics. Indeed, it is difficult to believe that any two prisoners could ever be considered “similarly situated” for the purpose of judicial review on equal protection grounds of broadly discretionary decisions because such decisions may legitimately be informed by a broad variety of an individual’s characteristics.”
3 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.