Snyder v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2017
2 district · 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 Wolff v. McDonnell · Collins v. Youngblood · California Department of Corrections v. Morales · Lynce v. Mathis · Coastal Barge Corp. v. Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the system in effect before the enactment of the Truth-in-Sentencing-Act, good time operated in two ways to permit an inmate’s early release from his term of incarceration. First, an inmate, in most cases, would have become eligible for parole under DeLCode Ann. tit. 11, § 4346 after serving one-third of the sentence imposed by the court, after the sentence was reduced by any good time award. Second, even if the inmate failed to obtain a discretionary grant of parole under DeLCode Ann. tit. 11, § 4346, the inmate could still obtain early release from his prison term, called “conditional release,” solely by virtue of his accumulated good time credits. Conditional release is an early release mechanism that operates only if parole is not employed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e review statutory construction issues de novo to determine if the Superior Court erred as a matter of law in formulating or applying legal precepts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bransfield 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.