Patten v. North Dakota Parole Board’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 140 · 1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2003
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Singleton v. Wulff · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Parker v. Corrothers · Melvin v. Petrovsky
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That co-defendants receive different parole dates does not violate a right of the one who gets the later date.”
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.