Smith v. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis
367 F.2d 539 · 1966
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably Shelton v. United States Board of Parole (1967), Cook v. United States Attorney General (1974)
59 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Zerbst v. Kidwell · Anderson v. Corall · Mock v. U. S. Board of Parole · United States ex rel. Jacobs v. Barc
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[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““ * * * [B]y violating parole, a prisoner forfeits all credit for good conduct time accumulated prior to re lease and all credit for time on parole, and must serve the full unexpired term of the original sentence. 18 U.S.C. § 4205 * * *.””
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.