Hedrick v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
187 F.2d 261 · 1951
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 1987 · most notably Corner v. Griffith (1977), Conner v. Griffith (1977)
15 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
Relies on Christianson v. Zerbst · United States ex rel. Jacobs v. Barc · Dolan v. Swope · Welsbach Engineering & Management Corp. v. Commissioner
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not entitled to have the time he was at liberty on conditional release or parole treated as time served on his sentence where there has been a violation of the terms of the conditional release or parole. Nor is he entitled to have the “good time” earned while he was serving his sentence prior to parole treated as time served on his sentence, when he subsequently violated that parole. [Emphasis supplied]. (187 F.2d at pp. 262-263).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[Wjhere violation of a parole occurs before expiration of maximum sentence, good time earned, at time parole is granted is forfeited, and under Section 4161, Title 18, U.S.C.A., statutory good time allowances are ‘to be credited as earned and computed monthly’ during service of balance of sentence for which parole was revoked.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he unexpired term of imprisonment of any [United States prisoner who has violated his parole] shall begin to run from the date he is returned to the custody of the Attorney General under [a warrant to retake him into custody], and the time the prisoner was on parole shall not diminish the time he was sentenced to serve,”
1 later decision 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.