Earley v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
462 F.3d 147 · 2006
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2023
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Bozza v. United States · Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler · Earley v. Murray
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f, as in Wampler, an erroneous order of commitment prepared by the clerk of court with the court’s knowledge cannot alter the sentence imposed by the court, then plainly a later addition to the sentence by an employee of the executive branch cannot do it. Only the judgment of a court, as expressed through the sentence imposed by a judge, has the power to constrain a person’s liberty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whatever conceptualization respondent-appellee has about the function of New York Penal Law sections 70.00 and 70.45, they cannot operate to undermine protections contained in the Federal Constitution. And as Wampler requires the custodial terms of sentences to be explicitly imposed by a judge, any prac tice to the contrary is simply unconstitutional and cannot be upheld.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vincent v. Yelich“When the sentence as imposed by the sentencing judge is purportedly altered to reflect something other than the sentence imposed, the source of that alteration is immaterial. Whether it is DOCS administrators or the operation of New York law that works the alteration, the alteration is of no effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vincent v. Yelich
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.