Norman Prellwitz v. Loyal J. Berg and James Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
578 F.2d 190 · 1978
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Black v. Romano (1985), United States v. Simmons (1987)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Williams v. People of State of New York · Mempa v. Rhay · Texas v. Louisiana
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he due process clause may require more than just proving a breach of a condition of supervision to justify revoking probation; a subjective determination of whether the violation warrants revocation is also contemplated”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Black v. Romano“forcing the state to show good cause for not producing the hearsay declarant would unwisely extend the limited due process rights of a probationer at the revocation hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the process should be flexible enough to consider evidence including letters, affidavits, and other material that would not be admissible in an adversary criminal trial.”
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.