Pfeifer v. United States Bureau of Prisons’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 873 · 1980
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably United States v. Yousef (2003), United States v. Abu Ali (2008)
22 federal appellate · 4 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 10 U.S.C. § 955 · 18 U.S.C. § 3244 · 18 U.S.C. § 4108 · 18 U.S.C. § 4109
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · McCarthy v. United States · Sherbert v. Verner · Tollett v. Henderson · United States v. Jackson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Americans who are incarcerated in Mexican prisons ... have no right to relief from United States courts. Those who accept the opportunity presented by the Treaty lose nothing by consenting to limit themselves solely to Mexican remedies after the transfer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kass v. Reno L“the requirement that an offender agree not to challenge his or her conviction in a United States court is not an unconstitutional condition”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kass v. Reno L“A constitutional question arises when a party is required to relinquish a vested right as a condition for obtaining a benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kass v. Reno L
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.