480 F. Supp. 111 - Howe v. Civiletti’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5003 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Sisbarro v. Warden, Massachusetts State Penitentiary · Old Ben Coal Corp. v. Interior Board of Mine Operations Appeals · Lono v. Fenton · Rebideau v. Stoneman · 467 F. Supp. 777 - Fletcher v. 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he [A]ct plainly and unambiguously requires no showing of specialized treatment needs or facilities before a Vermont state prisoner may be transferred to the federal prison system in accordance with the contract under which [the petitioner] was so transferred. . . . 18 U.S.C. 5003(a) requires nothing more of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons than a certification that facilities exist within the federal system in which state prisoners may be accommodated. That requirement has been met in the case at hand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no treatment programs exist in the State of Vermont, which could provide both treatment and long term maximum security supervision”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howe v. Smith“'dangerous person who could well repeat the same pattern of assaultive behavior toward women at any time in the future.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howe v. Smith
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.