Moore v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 434 · 1979
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably United States v. Layton (1988), Vito Matarese v. Eugene Lefevre (1986)
24 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 United States v. Addonizio · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Geraghty v. United States Parole Commission · Shepard v. Taylor · Pasquale v. Finch
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he standards and criteria [for parole release] are made the same for all federal prisoners without regard to which of the three main sentencing alternatives is utilized by the court. This will be of significant benefit to the federal correctional institutions because offenders sentenced for similar crimes under similar circumstances will be required to serve comparable periods of incarceration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... we find no intrusion by the Commission upon legislative or judicial prerogatives. Congress specifies the maximum sentence and, on occasion, the minimum sentence. Within statutory limits the district court selects an appropriate sentence. Whether the defendant serves all or only some portion of that sentence is essentially a matter within the discretion of the Parole Commission.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilden v. Fields · Priore v. Nelson“reports and recommendations which the staff of the facility in which such prisoner is confined may make.”
2 later decisions 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.