United States v. Wickham’s Empirical Analysis
618 F.2d 1307 · 1979
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Walker v. United States (1987), Hopper v. United States Parole Commission (1983)
41 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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. § 3651
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. Addonizio · Moody v. Daggett
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the delay must have prejudicially affected the probationer's ability to contest revocation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]oth (b)(2) prisoners and those with statutory minimum periods of incarceration receive the same treatment in being considered for parole”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The criteria used in setting the targeted release period for a particular individual under the new guidelines include little if any information that sentencing judges do not already have at the time of sentencing. Thus, sentencing judges now know, as the judge at the time of Wick-ham’s sentencing would have known, given the widespread publicity the guidelines received in the criminal justice system, that the designation of a sentence under the (a)(2) provision would no longer, if it ever did, have any real effect on a prisoner’s ultimate release date.”
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.