parole violation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 304 U.S. 359 - Zerbst v. Kidwell · 1938Most cited · 685 citing opinions
effect on original sentence
When respondent committed a federal crime while on parole, for which he was arrested, convicted, sentenced, and imprisoned, not only was his parole violated, but service of his original sentence was interrupted and suspended. Thereafter, his imprisonment was attributable to his second sentence only, and his rights and status as to his first sentence were 'analogous to those of an escaped convict.
How often courts cite the case defining “parole violation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “parole violation” — 685 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.