in custody
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 391 U.S. 54 - Peyton v. Rowe · 1968Most cited · 1,929 citing opinions
consecutive sentences
a prisoner serving consecutive sentences is 'in custody' under any one of them for purposes of § 2241(c)(3)
How often courts cite the case defining “in custody”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “in custody” — 1,928 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.