Frazier v. Manson’s Empirical Analysis
703 F.2d 30 · 1983
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Rivera v. Commissioner of Correction (2000), United States v. Hoyt (1989)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Stovall v. Denno · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · Williams v. Illinois · Barrett 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature could have reasonably relied on the fact that in imposing sentence a judge frequently takes into account existing systems of computing good time. It could then have determined that the more liberal method of awarding good time credits under [the new law] should not be made retroactive for the reason that had it been in effect prior to [the date of change], longer sentences would have been imposed initially upon appellant and other similarly situated prisoners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Brown v. State““There is no requirement that two persons convicted of the same offense receive identical sentences.” A legislature may prospectively reduce the maximum penalty for a crime even though prisoners sentenced to the maximum penalty before the effective date of the act would serve a longer term of imprisonment than one sentenced to the maximum term thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Robinson v. State
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.