Lightsey v. Kastner’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 329 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Watson v. Estelle (1989), Tripati v. United States Parole Commission (1989)
24 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 18 U.S.C. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 5 U.S.C. § 5314
Relies on Weaver v. Graham · Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. v. City of Chicago · Breest v. Helgemoe · Hayward v. United States Parole Commission · Romano v. Luther
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for an individual who will be in its jurisdiction the day before the expiration of five years after the effective date of this Act, pursuant to section 4206 of Title 18 United States Code.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“required to set a release date earlier than a point in time early enough to permit an administrative appeal to the Commission prior to the date on which the Parole Commission would cease to exist.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“pursuant to section 4206 of Title 18 United States Code,”
2 later decisions 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.