Holup v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 82 · 1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Williams v. Ward (1977), Franklin v. Shields (1977)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · United States v. Tucker · Baxter v. Palmigiano · Weinstein v. Bradford
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the inmate's interest in the proceedings . . . the 'need for and usefulness of the particular safeguard in given circumstances' . . . (and) any direct burden which might be imposed on the Board”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is a substantial difference on the due process issue between a finding of serious disciplinary action leading to loss of good-time credits, involved in Wolff, and denial of an application for parole. The broad discretion of the Board in the latter instance lessens the content of required due process . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that as a matter of constitutional law, any parole procedure which fails to allow every prospective parolee an inspection of his file in advance of his hearing, whether requested or not, is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment by the State involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Ward
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.