Bragg v. Huff’s Empirical Analysis
118 F.2d 1006 · 1941
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1995
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 710
Relies on United States ex rel. Rowe v. Nicholson · United States ex rel. Nicholson v. Dillard · Jarman v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““744h. Same; commutation of sentence for good conduct. Sections 710— 712a of this title, providing for commutation of sentences of United States prisoners for good conduct, shall be applicable to prisoners engaged in any industry, or transferred to any camp established under authority of sections 744b and 744c of this title; and in addition thereto each prisoner, without regard to length of sentence, may, in the discretion of the Attorney General, be allowed, under the same terms and conditions as provided in sections 7l0-712a a deduction from his sentence of not to exceed three days for each month of actual employment in said industry or said camp for the first year or any part thereof, and for any succeeding year or any part thereof not to exceed five days for each month of actual employment in said industry or said camp.” The effect of this statute is merely to authorize an additional good time allowance to prisoners engaged in industry or confined in the industrial camps referred to in the statute. The status of the prisoner until the expiration of his sentence was that of a prisoner on parole under the provisions of 18 U.S.C.A. § 716b, which is as follows: “716b. Same; prisoners released with credit for good conduct treated as on parole until expiration of maximum term. Any prisoner who shall have served the term or terms for which he shall after June 29, 1932 be sentenced, less deductions allowed therefrom for good conduct, shall upon release be treated as if released o”
2 later decisions 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.