Willie F. Ballard v. Olin G. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 868 · 1971
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Bell (1972), Vega v. United States (2007)
42 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Davis v. Attorney General of United States · United States v. Morgan · Ernest J. Jackson v. Attorney General of the United States, No. 71-2024 Summary Calendar. Rule 18, 5th Cir. See Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. Of New York, 5 Cir., 1970, 431 F.2d 409, Part I
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In general, a federal prisoner cannot be given credit for time spent in state prison on an unrelated charge. Courts have qualified this rule with an exception that applies ‘if the continued state confinement was exclusively the product of such action by federal law-enforcement officials as to justify treating the state jail as the practical equivalent of a federal one’. Thus if a federal detainer were lodged against a prisoner about to be released from state custody, any days that the state held him beyond what would otherwise have been his release date, to await the arrival of the federal marshal, would be time served ‘in connection with’ his federal offense.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The sentence of imprisonment of any person convicted of an offense shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the ... jail for service of such sentence. The Attorney General shall give any such person credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in custody in connection with the offense or acts for which sentence was imposed.... No sentence shall prescribe any other method of computing the term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.