White v. Pearlman’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.2d 788 · 1930
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 10 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Shields v. Beto (1967), Vega v. United States (2007)
62 federal appellate · 10 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Anderson v. Corall · Drinkall v. Spiegel · Dolan's Case · In re Strickler · In re Jennings
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] sentence of five years means a continuous sentence, unless interrupted by escape, violation of parole, or some fault of the prisoner, and he cannot be required to serve it in installments.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“generally agree upon the 'power of the government to recommit a prisoner who is released or discharged by mistake, where his sentence would not have expired if he had remained in confinement.’ ” Vega, 493 F.3d at 315-16 (quoting White v. Pearlman, 42 F.2d 788 , 789 (10th Cir.1930) (explaining that there is”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an escaped prisoner cannot be credited with the time he is at large.”
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.