Samples v. Scibana’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3621 · 18 U.S.C. § 841 (Amendments of 1973 to Federal Law) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp. · Dale Oney v. Darrell Ratliff Jungle Rags Inc Walt Disney Company Walt Disney Consumer Products Walt Disney World Company the Disney Store Inc · Neal v. United States · Bruce Downey v. Joseph Crabtree, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court further agrees with other district courts that the amendments to both 28 C.F.R. 550.58(a)(1) and Program Statement 5162.04 are an attempt by the BOP to disregard the line of federal circuit court cases that held that the BOP could not use a sentence enhancement to conclude that a prisoner had not been convicted of a nonviolent offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ward v. Booker“While early release under 3621(e)(2)(B) is open to all prisoners who meet the statutory requirements, the statute vests the BOP with broad discretion to grant or deny sentence reductions to eligible prisoners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ward v. Booker
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.