Staton v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 686 · 1982
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Board of Pardons v. Allen (1987), Todd v. Baskerville (1983)
16 federal appellate · 8 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 Conley v. Gibson · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Parratt v. Taylor · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In addition to any other lawful condition of parole, the commission may make the payment of the debt due and owing to the state under Sec. 960.17 or the payment of the attorney's fees and costs due and owing to a county under Sec. 27.56 a condition of parole, subject to modification based on change of circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“developed according to an acceptable research method and ... based on the seriousness of offense and the likelihood of favorable parole outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Commission retains substantial discretionary powers over the granting of a parole”
1 later decision 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.