Thomas v. Brennan’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 612 · 1992
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2018
11 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Newland v. Georgia · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States · Chatman-Bey v. Thornburgh · Citizens to Save Spencer County v. United States Environmental Protection Agency · Solomon v. Elsea
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 fact that a prisoner is eligible for parole means only that the paroling authority must consider his application for parole under the relevant parole guidelines. The paroling authority's ultimate decision is a matter of parole suitability (i.e., whether the prisoner is actually entitled to release under the guidelines).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“standards that set the time at which it must apply those guidelines.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shunt aside one regime while paying too much heed to the other.”
2 later decisions 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.