Smith v. Saxbe’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 729 · 1977
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Securities & Exchange Commission v. Murphy (1980), Derrick v. Rs Peterson (1990)
23 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · Aguilar v. Texas · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Gerstein v. Pugh
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All prisoners convicted in the District of Columbia for any offense . . . shall be committed ... to the custody of the Attorney General of the United States or his authorized representative, who shall designate the places of confinement where the sentences of all such persons shall be served. The Attorney General may designate any available, suitable, and appropriate institutions, whether maintained by the District of Columbia Government, the federal government, or otherwise, or whether within or without the District of Columbia. The Attorney General is also authorized to order the transfer of any such person from one institution to another if, in his judgment, it shall be for the well-being of the prisoner or relieve overcrowding or unhealthful conditions in the institution where such prisoner is confined, or for other reasons.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Attorney General may designate as a place of confinement any available, suitable, and appropriate institution or facility, whether maintained by the Federal Government or otherwise, and whether within or without the judicial district in which the person was convicted, and may at any time transfer a person from one place of confinement to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Persico v. Gunnell“unlike the parolee or the probationer ..., the furloughed prisoner is on a short string. His freedom is not potentially unlimited in duration even upon compliance with the official rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowser v. Vose
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.