Robbins v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 546 · 1979
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2003
10 federal appellate ·
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 Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky · Billiteri v. United States Board of Parole · Andrino v. United States Board of Parole · Smith v. United States · Robinson v. Benson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a likelihood that [Valona] will engage in conduct violating any criminal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the narrow issue of what procedure the United States Parole Commission should follow when events casting doubt on the advisability of terminating parole occur between a parole termination hearing and the issuance of a final decision based on that hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress intended the Parole Commission to use any information it considered relevant in determining whether a parolee is likely to violate the law.”
1 later decision 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.