Schiffman v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
216 F.2d 589 · 1954
Citation profile
40 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably Moore v. Smith (1969), Keyworth C. Birch, Jr. v. Sam A. Anderson (1965)
40 federal appellate ·
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 1 U.S.C. § 109
Relies on Zerbst v. Kidwell · Anderson v. Corall · Tippitt v. Wood · Hammerer v. Huff
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A warrant for the retaking of any United States prisoner who has violated his parole, may be issued only by the Board of Parole or a member thereof and within the maximum term or terms for which he was sentenced. The unexpired term of imprisonment of any such prisoner shall begin to run from the date he is returned to the custody of the Attorney General under said warrant, 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““A prisoner having served his term or terms less good-time deductions shall, upon release, be deemed as if released on parole until the expiration of the maximum term or terms for which he was sentenced less one hundred and eighty days.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Kearney
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.