Piper v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
485 F.2d 245 · 1973
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Vega v. United States (2007), State v. Parker (1994)
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 14 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
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Shields v. Beto · Willard Junior Chunn v. J. J. Clark, Warden · Bilton v. Beto
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In cases based upon the principles of Shields it is not sufficient to prove official conduct that merely evidences a lack of eager pursuit or even arguable lack of interest. Rather the waiving state’s action must be so affirmatively wrong or its inaction so grossly negligent that it would be unequivocally inconsistent with “fundamental principles of liberty and justice” to require a legal sentence to be served in the aftermath of such action or inaction.... Piper also argues that Shields is applicable any time one sovereign surrenders a prisoner to another sovereign while the prisoner is serving a sentence of the surrenderer. Even assuming such a holding would somehow raise issues of constitutional dimensions, Shields establishes no per se rule which substitutes for analysis of the facts of each case in light of the requirements of due process.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fundamental principles of liberty and justice”
5 later decisions 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.