Fierro v. MacDougall’s Empirical Analysis
648 F.2d 1259 · 1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2015
4 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Whalen v. United States · United States v. Wylie · Paul Rod Ramirez v. State of Arizona, Frank A. Eyman, Warden, Arizona State Prison · James Burchett v. Harold J. Cardwell, Warden, Arizona State Penitentiary
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he imposition of consecutive sentences is nothing more than the imposition, for each crime, of the sentence fixed by legislative act. Such sentencing [constitutes] literal compliance with that which the legislature has prescribed.”
2 later decisions 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.