LaChance v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district ·

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Had Mr. LaChance's (even then long-standing) abuse of cocaine been known to the Commission at the time of the 1988 conviction, the Commission could have revoked his parole then.... It was deprived of its ability to respond flexibly and knowledgeably by Mr. LaChance's continuing concealment of the facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Douglas Lachance v. Janet Reno, in Her Capacity as Attorney General of the United States, and the United States Parole Commission