Mann v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It seems clear that had Judge Chesnut imposed one general sentence, valid as to all counts, and the defendant had begun this sentence (at least after the expiration of 60 days from the sentence), the power in question would not exist. Rule 35, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.; United States v. Murray, 275 U.S. 347 , 48 S.Ct. 146 , 72 L.Ed. 309 . The power does exist, before the defendant enters upon the sentence in question, where the sentence imposed becomes effective only upon the expiration of a prior sentence of the same defendant imposed by another court. Kelley v. United States, 10 Cir., 209 F.2d 638 . The intermediate case, before us, is where the defendant has entered upon a sentence of one count, and the court is asked to suspend the sentence under another count of the same indictment, and the defendant has not begun the service of this second sentence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Reynolds

2. “I have very serious doubt whether after the imposition of the sentence in this case and prior to the beginning of the consecutive term, the court has power under the Probation Act to grant a modification of the sentence by suspending the consecutive term.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Jackson

3. “[T]he Probation Statute is a humanitarian piece of legislation and should, accordingly, be liberally interpreted by the courts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Moore