Vann v. Angelone’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.3d 519 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2023
8 federal appellate ·
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 Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Meachum v. Fano · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson · Franklin v. Shields · Franklin v. Shields
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We reject petitioner’s attempt to draw this court into the merits of either the state’s parole statute or its individual parole decisions. To accept the invitation to review Vann’s parole eligibility determination would require us to second guess both the Virginia DOC and the Virginia General Assembly. We would, for example have to assess the facts and circumstances surrounding Vann’s robberies, evaluate the DOC’s reasons for denying Vann parole, compare the decision in Vann’s case with others....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a federal court would have reached the same conclusion in the first instance is beside the point. The point is that Virginia reached that conclusion, and its decision must be sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would compromise important principles of federalism, undermine state parole authorities, and install the federal judiciary as the final arbiter in yet one more area of state law.”
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.