Birth v. Crabtree’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3621 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wallace v. Christensen · United States v. Cantu · Bruce Downey v. Joseph Crabtree, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution · Jacks v. Crabtree · Cort v. Crabtree
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he period a prisoner convicted of a nonviolent offense remains in custody after successfully completing a treatment program may be reduced by the Bureau of Prisons, but such reduction may not be more than one year from the term the prisoner must otherwise serve.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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