People v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2019
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Boykin v. Alabama · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Tollett v. Henderson · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant's argument is without merit because the statutory scheme which gives the parole board discretionary power to grant parole on the basis of factors other than the length of the prisoner's sentence is reasonably related to a legitimate government interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Dean · Dean v. People“the parole board may, in its discretion, release a prisoner serving a life sentence after that prisoner has served less time than the defendant will have served before he may be considered for parole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Dean
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.