Zaffarano v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.2d 474 · 1968
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1992
10 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
Relies on Douglas v. Alabama · Walker v. Wainwright · United States v. Morse · Zaffarano v. United States · Zaffarano v. Blackwell
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A prisoner in custody under sentence of a court established by Act of Congress claiming the right to be released upon the ground that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States, ... or that the sentence . . is otherwise subject to collateral attack, may move the court which imposed the sentence to vacate, set aside or correct, the sentence.” 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is merit to the argument that under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 an attack on a sentence, or an attempt to modify a sentence, should in the first instance be made to the sentencing court, whether or not we term the requirement strictly jurisdictional.” Zaffarano v. Fitzpatrick, 404 F.2d 474, 478 (2d Cir.1968), cert. denied, 395 U.S. 977 , 89 S.Ct. 2130 , 23 L.Ed.2d 766 (1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“vacate, set aside or correct the sentence.”
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.