Franklin Delano Floyd v. J. D. Henderson, Warden, United States Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
456 F.2d 1117 · 1972
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably United States v. Lawson (1982), United States ex rel. Gereau v. Henderson (1976)
14 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4082
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Jones v. Taylor · Robert Edward Lipscomb v. Lewis B. Stevens, Warden
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The state prisoner] could not complain about being returned [from state custody] to federal prison, because the question of jurisdiction and custody over a prisoner is one of comity between governments and not a personal right of the prisoner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the statutory] authority is sufficient to permit the transfer of petitioner from one institution to another prison.”
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.