Gale v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.2d 341 · 1985
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Board of Pardons v. Allen (1987), 26 Conn. App. 132 - Vincenzo v. Warden (1991)
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Florida v. Royer · Sullivan 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When in its opinion there is reasonable probability that an inmate of a state correctional institution can be released without detriment to the community or to himself, the board may in its discretion release or parole such person.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Missouri law [section 549.261] providing that when the statutory and regulatory guidelines are met the inmate shall be released on parole gives rise to the same protectible entitlement as the Nebraska scheme providing that the prisoner shall be paroled unless certain findings are made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Legislative classifications regarding prisoners and parole ordinarily do not involve suspect classifications or fundamental rights. Therefore, to be valid, such classifications need only to be rationally related to a legitimate governmental purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Patterson v. Webster
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.