Creel v. Keene’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 707 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2016
11 federal appellate · 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. § 1915
Relies on Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · California v. ARC America Corp. · Board of Pardons v. Allen · Cimo v. Petty · McCarty Ranch Trust v. Craig
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the seriousness of the offense and the likelihood of favorable parole outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Rodriguez“able and willing to fulfill the obligations of a law-abiding citizen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Rodriguez“only for the best interest of society, not as an award of clemency,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Rodriguez
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.