Robert Lee Mobley v. Richard L. Dugger, Jim Smith, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 1495 · 1987
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2011
10 federal appellate · 8 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 Anders v. California · White v. Pearlman · Shields v. Beto · Piper v. Estelle · 478 F. Supp. 804 - United States v. Merritt
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] convicted person will not be excused from serving his sentence merely because someone in a ministerial capacity makes a mistake with respect to its execution. Several additional factors must be present before relief will be granted — the result must not be attributable to the defendant himself; the action of the authorities must amount to more than simple neglect; and the situation brought about by [the] defendant’s release and his incarceration must be unequivocally inconsistent with fundamental principles of liberty and justice.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment accords a prisoner the right to reestablish himself and live down his past (citation omitted) and that the state violates this right when it delays the incarceration of a prisoner for an inordinate amount of time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Spieth
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.