Francis v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
838 F.2d 1147 · 1988
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Dominique v. Weld (1996), Beattie v. United States (1991)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Hewitt v. Helms · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Poland v. Arizona · Board of Pardons v. Allen · Bailey v. Butcher
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The existence of a liberty interest in work-release arising from state law depends on the extent to which official discretion has been constrained by statute, regulation, or practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“states not who must receive work-release, but simply who is eligible for work-release; the Corrections Department still must exercise discretion in choosing suitable prisoners”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowser v. Vose“at the discretion of the [B]oard [of Corrections].”
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.