Emig v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4082 · 18 U.S.C. § 4161
Relies on Jefferson & Clearfield Coal & Iron Co. v. United States · Earl Earnest Scott v. United States · United States v. Gaines · United States v. Huss · Nelson 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ordinarily, if a sentence results from the state charges, there will be a presumption that the prisoner did receive credit for presentence time, however, this may be rebutted if the prisoner can demonstrate that the state did not credit the time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The starting point ... is the fundamental proposition that time served on an unrelated state sentence that has been voided cannot be credited against a federal sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pinaud v. James
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.