Cunningham v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4201
Relies on Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Bell v. United States · Lewis v. United States · Posadas v. National City Bank
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The punishment of murder in the first degree shall be life imprisonment. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person convicted of first-degree murder and upon whom a sentence of life imprisonment is imposed shall be eligible for parole only after the expiration of 20 years from the date he commences to serve his sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Poole v. Kelly · Poole v. Kelly
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.