Gray v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Christian v. United States (1978), United States v. Eaddy (1979)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Tollett v. Henderson · Estelle v. Williams · Francis v. Henderson · Davis v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(e) If trial is not had on any indictment, information, or complaint contemplated hereby prior to the prisoner’s being returned to the original place of imprisonment . . ., such indictment shall not be of any further force or effect, and the court shall enter an order dismissing the same with prejudice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to have a prisoner against whom he has lodged a detainer and who is serving a term of imprisonment in any party State”
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.