Fulton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
250 F.2d 281 · 1957
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
June 1967
most recently cited
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hiatt v. Ellis · United States ex rel. Chasteen v. Denemark
Most-quoted passages
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““ ‘Consecutive with’ may be infelicitous. It may offend purists in the art of using prepositions idiomatically. But it is not a riddle. It is not illogical. It is not uncertain. It is not ungrammatical. American-English has wide play in the joints, and a predilection for a particular preposition to express a relationship may go against usage if the choice of preposition results in meaningful language. Either ‘to’ or ‘with’ would show that there is a relation between the two sentences of imprisonment. What that relation is, is embodied in the meaning of ‘consecutive’. ‘Consecutive sentences can mean only a close and uninterrupted sequence of sentences. The distinguished district judge’s language is clear and definite and technically correct.” See also Sutton v. United States, 266 F.2d 529 (5th Cir. 1959).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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