Morison v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 10 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Felder v. Casey (1988), Howlett Ex Rel. Howlett v. Rose (1990)
49 federal appellate · 10 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 21 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. § 3143 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 793
Relies on United States v. Morison · United States v. Bayko
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) ... (T)he judicial officer shall order that a person who has been found guilty of an offense and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and who has filed an appeal ... be detained, unless the judicial officer finds— (B) that the appeal is not for the purpose of delay and raises a substantial question of law or fact likely to result in— (iii) a sentence that does not include a term of imprisonment, or (iv) a reduced sentence to a term of imprisonment less than... the expected duration of the appeal process. If the judicial officer makes such findings, such judicial officer shall order the release of the person in accordance with section 3142(b) or (c) of this title.... 1”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.