Davis v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Blair-Bey v. Quick (1998), Ellis v. District of Columbia (1996)
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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 Weaver v. Graham · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Dobbert v. Florida · Miller v. Florida · Sloan v. Hicks
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Board had no formalized scoring system, but was required by regulation to consider factors such as the inmate’s offense, prior history of criminality, personal and social history, physical and emotional health, institutional experience, and availability of community resources, when exercising its discretion to authorize parole.... The decision to grant parole remained within the discretion of the Board, provided “there [was] a reasonable probability that a prisoner w[ould] live and remain at liberty without violating the law, [and] that his release [was] not incompatible with the welfare of society,” ... a provision that mirrored the parole statute then in effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whenever it shall appear to the-Board of Parole that there is a reasonable probability that a prisoner will live and remain at liberty without violating the law, that his release is not incompatible with the welfare of society, and that he has served the minimum sentence imposed or the prescribed portion of his sentence, as the case may be, the Board may authorize his release on parole upon such terms and conditions as the Board shall from time to time prescribe.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blair-Bey v. Quick“[t]he new District of Columbia parole guidelines ... [ 331 U.S.App.D.C. 376 ] merely formalize the manner in which the Board exercises the discretion conferred upon it by the governing provision in effect when Davis was sentenced.”
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.