Williams v. Maggio’s Empirical Analysis
714 F.2d 554 · 1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2015
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Blockburger v. United States · Benton v. Maryland · Missouri v. Hunter · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Sullivan v. United States
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even assuming that [Williams could prevail on the merits of his claim], the maximum habeas relief available would be the invalidation of one of the sentences, and as the two sentences here are strictly identical in length, it would not matter which one were set aside. Moreover, because Williams was sentenced in each case as a third-time offender, he is not eligible either for parole on or diminution of either sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Austin v. Cain“The concurrent sentence doctrine, provides that if a prisoner is serving two or more concurrent sentences, and a reviewing court determines that one of the sentences is valid, the court may decline to review or consider the remaining sentence(s). The doctrine is based on judicial convenience and economy.”
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.