Cunningham v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
256 F.2d 467 · 1958
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1992 · most notably 17 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Olivas (1976), Ralston v. Robinson (1982)
73 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 661
Relies on Bolling v. Sharpe · Von Moltke v. Gillies · State of Minnesota Pearson v. Probate Court of Ramsey County Minn · O'Neil v. State of Vermont · In Re Herrera
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Pjrovides for and affords youthful offenders, in the discretion of the judge, not heavier penalties and punishment than are imposed upon adult offenders, but the opportunity to escape from the physical and psychological shocks and traumas attendant upon serving an ordinary penal sentence while obtaining the benefits of corrective treatment, looking to rehabilitation and social redemption and restoration.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““If the court shall find that a convicted person is a youth offender, and the offense is punishable by imprisonment under applicable provisions of law other than this subsection, the court may, in lieu of the penalty of imprisonment otherwise provided by law, sentence the youth offender to the custody of the Attorney-General for treatment and supervision pursuant to this chapter until discharged by the Division as provided in section 5017(c) of this chapter; * * *.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * [T]he Youth Corrections Act * * * is designed to provide [youths] with correctional treatment looking to their complete rehabilitation in lieu of .punishment, that is with preventive guidance and training, and all of its provisions are designed, enacted and enforced with that end in view.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.