Watkins v. Merry’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.2d 360 · 1939
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably United States v. Villano (1987), United States v. Lewis (1980)
23 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Wilson · Hill v. United States ex rel. Wampler · United States v. Murray · People Ex Rel. Trainor v. Baker · Rohr v. Hudspeth
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon entering a judgment of conviction of any offense not punishable by death or life imprisonment, if the maximum punishment provided for such offense is more than six months, any court having jurisdiction to try offenses against the United States, when satisfied that the ends of justice and the best interest of the public as well as the defendant will be served thereby, may impose a sentence in excess of six months and provide that the defendant be confined in a jail-type institution or a treatment institution for a period not exceeding six months and that the execution of the remainder of the sentence be suspended and the defendant placed on probation for such period and upon such terms and conditions as the court deems best.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he judgment is the pronouncement of the court from the bench. The clerk's entry is not the judgment but merely the formal evidence thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.