Schiff v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2025
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3565 · 18 U.S.C. § 3602 · 18 U.S.C. § 3603 · 18 U.S.C. § 3606
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Malley v. Briggs
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a federal probation officer files a petition for [supervised release] revocation, that petition does nothing but initiate regularized judicial procedures which may or may not result in [supervised release] revocation. Indeed, the petition does not even prompt a [supervised release] revocation hearing unless the district judge issues an order to show cause. That order, in turn, merely triggers a revocation hearing under Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. At this hearing, the [supervised releasee] must be afforded the opportunity to contest allegations that he has violated the terms of his [supervised release], to produce witnesses who will offer relevant testimony, to cross-examine adverse witnesses and to be represented by an attorney. Such adversarial proceedings are designed to protect against the erroneous deprivations of a [supervised releasee’s] rights. Furthermore, a [supervised releasee] is entitled to appeal from revocation of his [supervised release].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed, the sentencing judge’s need for complete and accurate information about an offender requires that he enjoy a relationship of the utmost trust and confidentiality with the federal probation officer. In order to assure candor in this relationship, probation officers must not be subject to harassing and vexatious litigation brought by convicted offenders who are predictably unhappy about their sentences.”
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.