United States v. Eakman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Fjederal prisoners challenging some aspect of the execution of their sentence, such as denial of parole, may proceed under Section 2241. This difference arises from the fact that Section 2255, which like Section 2241 confers habeas corpus jurisdiction over petitions from federal prisoners, is expressly limited to challenges to the validity of the petitioner’s sentence. Thus, Section 2241 is the only statute that confers habeas jurisdiction to hear the petition of a federal prisoner who is challenging not the validity but the execution of his sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Woodall v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

2. “the district court received `misinformation of a constitutional magnitude' and ... the district judge relied at least in part on that misinformation”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Pettiford

3. “how a sentence could ever be deemed fair when there is some way to verify the sentencing court's error externally.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Walls