Priore v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 211 · 1980
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Geraghty v. United States Parole Commission (1983), Farras v. United States (1984)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Geraghty v. United States Parole Commission · Ruip v. United States · Shepard v. Taylor · Moore v. Nelson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish a national paroling policy, promote a more consistent exercise of discretion, and enable fairer and more equitable decision-making without removing individual case consideration,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“serve as a national parole policy which seeks to achieve both equity between individual cases and a uniform measure of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Double Jeopardy Clause applies to judicial proceedings, not parole.”
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.