Paschal v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
738 F.2d 1173 · 1984
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Abed v. Commissioner of Correction (1996), United States v. Affleck (1985)
20 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Weaver v. Graham · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Dobbert v. Florida
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n ex post facto law possesses three characteristics: it is a criminal or penal measure, retrospective, and disadvantageous to the offender because it may impose greater punishment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dyke v. Meachum · Francis v. Fox“A law which is merely procedural and does not add to the quantum of punishment ... cannot violate the ex post facto clause even if it is applied retrospectively.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has been expressly or implicitly rejected by every other Circuit Court of Appeals that has assessed the ex post facto effect of the U.S. Parole Commission guidelines in adult cases, and a number of state courts deciding similar issues.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.