Causey v. Civiletti’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 691 · 1980
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States v. Horton (1981), United States v. Hardesty (1992)
39 federal appellate · 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 Ponzi v. Fessenden · Cobb v. Lewis · Zerbst v. McPike · United States v. Croft
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who has violated the criminal statutes of both the Federal and State governments may not complain of the order in which he is tried or punished for such offenses.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sentence of imprisonment ... shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the penitentiary, reformatory, or jail for service of such sentence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Perhaps the federal government had the power to require that Causey's federal sentence be served first, immediately after the state prosecution was completed, but it did not choose to do so. This is evidenced by its issue of a detainer to the Florida Department of Corrections instructing that department to notify the United States Marshal['s] Service when Causey was released from state custody, so that his federal sentence could then be served.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moody v. Holman
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.