DiStefano v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2019
16 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 · Daniels v. Williams · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Meachum v. Fano · Weaver v. Graham
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute is ambiguous not only if it is 'reasonably susceptible to different conclusions or interpretations,' but also if 'a literal interpretation of the words of the statute would lead to an absurd or unreasonable result that could not have been intended by the legislature.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] furlough program, unlike parole, * * * is an internal rehabilitational program the denial of which cannot be said to be an element of the punishment attached to an inmate's initial conviction”
1 later decision 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.