Beck v. Wilkes’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.2d 901 · 1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2008
7 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Meachum v. Fano · Montanye v. Haymes · Cook v. United States Attorney General
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[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“at any time (to) transfer a person from one place of confinement to another”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goodman v. Keohane
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.