United States v. Hedges’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.2d 188 · 1972
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. Wright (1987), United States v. Medina (1985)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1792 · 18 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on Lawn v. United States · Marietta Norton v. The Discipline Committee of East Tennessee State University · Wood v. United States · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. National Mediation Board · United States v. Currier
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Grant ... of good behavior time is a matter totally within the discretion of penal authorities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is established in this circuit that administrative punishment does not render a subsequent judicial prosecution violative of the Fifth Amendment prohibition of double jeopardy. Hutchinson v. United States, 450 F.2d 930, 931 (10th Cir. 1971). The double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment was thus not violated here.” (Footnote omitted.) Hedges, supra, at 190 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colbeth v. Civiletti“reasonable to infer that the knife in question was conveyed from the place where Hedges entered the trailer to the sally port where he was discovered.”
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.