Stiver v. Meko’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.3d 574 · 1997
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Kapral v. United States (1999), O'Donald v. Johns (2005)
15 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 3621 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 550
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Weaver v. Graham · United States v. Halper · United States v. Shimer · Reno v. Koray
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nmates who are not eligible for participation in a community-based program as determined by the Warden on the basis of his or her professional discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. at 986. Similarly, in Stiver, the Third Circuit explained that 19 [t]he [BOP] in the exercise of its discretion in administering the early release element of the residential drug abuse treatment program, has imposed an additional qualification: prisoners' non-conviction of certain enumerated past violent offenses, in addition to the requirement that the present conviction be for a non-violent offense. It was not attempting to, and has not interpreted the phrase”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“represents a reasonable accommodation of conflicting policies that were committed to the agency's care by the statute.”
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.