conditional liberty
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 408 U.S. 471 - Morrissey v. Brewer · 1972Most cited · 18,975 citing opinions
Revocation deprives an individual, not of the absolute liberty to which every citizen is entitled, but only of the conditional liberty properly dependent on observance of special parole restrictions.
How often courts cite the case defining “conditional liberty”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “conditional liberty” — 18,938 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.