Gavin v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
914 F.2d 97 · 1990
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
April 2004
most recently cited
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Maleng v. Cook · Crank v. Duckworth · Wallace v. Turner
Most-quoted passages
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“[o]nly an actual enhancement of the 1970 sentence based on the 1955 conviction would implicate the question left unanswered in Maleng : ‘the extent to which [an earlier] conviction ... may be subject to challenge in the attack upon [later] sentences which it was used to enhance.’ 109 S.Ct. at 1927 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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