Mustain v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 1018 · 1979
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2015
16 federal appellate ·
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. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 4082 · 18 U.S.C. § 5005 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United State v. Morgan · Carafas v. J · Hensley v. Municipal Court, San Jose-Milpitas Judicial Dist., Santa Clara Cty. · Costello v. United States · White v. Pearlman
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)hile the rehabilitative potential under FYCA might be lessened by a consecutively imposed consecutive adult sentence, this consequence stems from the subsequent offense and does not invalidate the subsequent sentence .... Nor could it render legally ineffective the FYCA sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Outing v. Bell“The proper means of attacking the validity of a sentence which has already been served and which is unrelated to the petitioner's present confinement is by writ of error coram nobis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“can be filed only in the court where the alleged errors occurred,”
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.