illegal sentence
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 346 U.S. 502 - United State v. Morgan · 1954Most cited · 3,619 citing opinions
Rule 35
Sentences subject to correction under that rule are those that the judgment of conviction did not authorize.
How often courts cite the case defining “illegal sentence”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “illegal sentence” — 3,618 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.