Chester E. Jackson v. John C. Taylor, Acting Warden’s Empirical Analysis
234 F.2d 611 · 1956
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015
7 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Burns v. Wilson · Carter v. McClaughry · United States ex rel. Auld v. Warden of New Jersey State Penitentiary · De Coster v. Madigan
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the normal, traditional and well understood practice in the administra tion of military justice that ‘there shall be but a single sentence covering all the convictions on all the charges and specifications upon which the accused is found guilty, however separate and distinct may be the different offenses found, and however different may be the punishments called for by the offenses.’”
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.