Smith III v. Hambrick’s Empirical Analysis
637 F.2d 211 · 1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2001
1 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 Garcia v. United States Board of Parole · Hill v. Attorney General
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“release would depreciate the seriousness of his offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watts v. Hadden
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.