United States v. Correa-De Jesus’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 1283 · 1983
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Blanton v. United States (1996), United States v. Kwok Chee Kwan (2005)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · United States v. Frady · Engle v. Isaac · United State v. Morgan · North Carolina v. Rice
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.
“Section 2255 empowers a court to grant relief to persons now or soon to be in custody serving one of its sentences. It does not empower a court to grant relief to someone it has never sentenced, or to someone it has sentenced but whose sentence has expired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.