Picrin-Peron v. Rison’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 773 · 1991
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Rosales-Garcia v. Holland (2003), Alvarez-Mendez v. Stock (1991)
27 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Fay v. Noia · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Stone v. Powell · United States v. W. T. Grant Co.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]bsent Picrin's reinvolvement with the criminal justice system, a change in the Cuban government enabling him to return to Cuba, or the willingness of a third country to accept him, he will be paroled for another year.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Habeas lies to enforce the right of personal liberty; when that right is denied and a person confined, the federal court has the power to release him. Indeed, it has no other power; it cannot revise the state court judgment; it can act only on the body of the petitioner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Prellwitz v. Sisto“Because he has been released, there is no further relief [that] we can provide.”
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.