Edwards v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 299 · 1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2013
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Hewitt v. Helms · Griffin v. Wisconsin · Whitehorn v. El Harrelson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Certainly Edwards is subject to more constraints in the . . . program than she would be if on parole, but we find determinative the fact that she has been released from institutional life into society. The constraints applied to Edwards serve to guide her in the outside world, not ... to confine her to the equivalent of an institutional life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Viewing parole and work release on a continuum, with more freedom and self-determination associated with parole and less with work release, we believe that [plaintiffs] participation in this program is more closely related to parole.... [W]e find determinative the fact that she has been released from institutional life into society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roucchio v. Coughlin“A liberty interest inherent in the Constitution arises when a prisoner has acquired a substantial, although conditional, freedom such that 'the loss of liberty entailed [by its revocation] is a serious deprivation requiring that the [prisoner] be accorded due process.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harper v. Young
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.