Singleton v. Looney’s Empirical Analysis
218 F.2d 526 · 1955
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 1993 · most notably Weathers v. Willingham (1966), Howard v. United States (1960)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2314
Relies on Hicks v. Reid · Chandler v. Johnston · Evans v. Hunter · Looney v. Lenz
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A prisoner having served the term or terms for which he shall have been sentenced after June 29, 1932, less good time deductions, shall upon release be treated as if released on parole, and shall be subject to all provisions of law relating to the parole of United States prisoners until the expiration of the maximum term or terms for which he was sentenced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“.. „ „ ,, ■ , The conditions of the release.are as mandatory as the right *? tthf releaseJ ^elf based upon the statutory good-time deductions. And th® f Cldene? °f, tbe condlt“ns fay *ot be. forestallf by “ere dissent of e Prlsoner-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McMillan v. Parker
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.