United States v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 830 · 1977
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably Geraghty v. United States Parole Commission (1978), United States v. Baytank (Houston), Inc. (1991)
28 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Dorszynski v. United States · Dann v. Johnston · Ex parte United States · United States v. Jenkins · Allegaert v. Perot
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the court shall find that a convicted person is a youth offender, and the offense is punishable by imprisonment under applicable provisions of law other than this subsection, the court may, in lieu of the penalty of imprisonment otherwise provided by law, sentence the youth offender to the custody of the Attorney General for treatment and supervision pursuant to this chapter until discharged by the Commission as provided in section 5017(c) of this chapter. ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“administrative reform or Congressional action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Nelson · Watts v. Hadden“A youth offender committed under section 5010(b) of this chapter shall be released conditionally under supervision on or before the expiration of four years from the date of his conviction and shall be discharged unconditionally on or before six years from the date of his conviction.”
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.