Bryant v. Civiletti’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 286 · 1981
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016
12 federal appellate · 3 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 Preiser v. Rodriguez · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. · Simpson v. United States
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the law, ... Bryant will not even be eligible for consideration for parole on these offenses until well into the next century; i.e., until 50 years after his sentence began to run in 1968, i.e., until 2017.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chatman-Bey v. Meese
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.