Jackson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
495 F.2d 349 · 1974
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1999
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 109 · 21 U.S.C. § 801 (§ 101 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 7237 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Hill v. United States · MacHibroda v. United States · United States v. Hayman · Davis v. Alaska · Kaufman v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the sentence was imposed in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States ; (2) that the court was without jurisdiction to impose such sentence; (3) that the sentence was in excess of the maximum authorized by law; and (4) that the sentence is otherwise subject to collateral attack.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A court may entertain and determine such motion without requiring the production of the prisoner at the hearing.””
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.