Yokley v. Belaski’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 423 · 1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2013
1 federal appellate · 4 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. § 511 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Schweiker v. Wilson · Eaton v. Jarvis Products Corp. · State v. Rodriguez · In Re Johnson v. State
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the Gregorian calendar is less than perfect, it is a pervasive tool in the ordering of our daily lives. Were we to require greater exactitude, there would be no end to the claims that could be brought. The petitioner claims that `leap years' create disparities in the number of days he is incarcerated. However, there are a number of other factors that also affect time of incarceration. The different months of the year contain varying numbers of days which can create disparities. `Daylight Savings Time' can create disparities in the number of hours imprisoned. Each year we create further disparities by making micro adjustments to our clock to perfect our ability to tell time accurately.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harris · State v. Harris“period of twelve months commencing on a specified day of a particular month and terminating as of the same day of the same month in the succeeding year”); City of Las Vegas v. Kitchell Contractors, Inc. Of Arizona, 768 F.Supp. 742, 746 (D.Nev.1991) (in context of measuring time before or after a given event, “year” is usually interpreted to mean”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nesbit v. State
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.