Gunton v. Squier’s Empirical Analysis
185 F.2d 470 · 1950
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Thomas v. Brewer (1991), Strand v. Schmittroth (1957)
42 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 709
Relies on Zerbst v. McPike · Hayden v. Warden, United States Penitentiary
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who has violated the criminal statutes of both the Federal and State Governments may not complain of the order in which he is tried or punished for such offenses.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“his Federal sentence could not start to run until he was delivered to and received by the United States Marshal at the place of detention to await transportation to the Federal penitentiary”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Brewer
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.