Espinoza v. Sabol’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.3d 83 · 2009
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2024
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 18 U.S.C. § 3584 · 18 U.S.C. § 3585 · 18 U.S.C. § 3624 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · County of Sacramento v. Lewis · Collins v. City of Harker Heights · Washington v. Glucksberg · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“18 U.S.C. § 3585 (b) specifies that a defendant convicted of a federal crime has a right to receive credit for certain time spent in official detention before his sentence begins. That credit is determined by the Attorney General, not by a court.”
1 later decision 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.