Phillips v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Akin v. Missouri Pacific Railroad (1998), McLin v. Trimble (1990)
6 federal appellate · 23 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Oregon v. Hass
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mandated standards of inmate-parole-release eligibility [and] also those that would structure eligibility for mere consideration of parole release.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no constitutional or inherent right of a convicted person to be conditionally released before the expiration of a valid sentence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Interests protected by due process are not always 'created by the [Federal] Constitution. Rather, they are [often] created and their dimensions are defined' by some independent source, which consists quite frequently of a state statute or rule entitling the person to certain benefits.”
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.