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7 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 25 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Ziya K. Koray v. Frank Sizer United States Bureau of Prisons Attorney General of the United States.

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1 Ziya K. Koray v. Frank Sizer United States Bureau of Prisons Attorney General of the United States Anchor
ca3 · 1994
green “merely internal guidelines that may be altered by the bureau at will.” 6
2 LaSorsa v. Spears
nysd · 1998
green “prisoner convicted of a nonviolent offense” 4
3 Fristoe v. Thompson
ca10 · 1998
green “would permit the bop to treat nonviolent offenders as though they were convicted of a violent offense, undermining the express language of the statute.” 3
4 Fristoe v. Thompson
ca10 · 1998
green “courts typically do not consider” 3
5 Victor M. Roussos v. Frederick Menifee, Warden
ca3 · 1997
green “is eligible in the absence of his conviction for a nonviolent offense or a crime of violence, neither of which occurred.” 3
6 LaSorsa v. Spears
nysd · 1998
green “a prisoner convicted of a nonviolent offense” 3
7 LaSorsa v. Spears
nysd · 1998
green “certainly has, under the statute, the ability to deny early release to prisoners, the attendant circumstances of whose convictions involved weapons possession, ... even though they were not convicted of a weapons offense.” 3

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