United States v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
270 F.2d 521 · 1959
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2009 · most notably United States v. Denson (1979), United States v. Tonry (1979)
26 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · La Buy v. Howes Leather Co. · Collett Kitpatrick v. Texas and Pacific Railway Co · Ex parte Fahey · United States v. Murray
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) If the court is of the opinion that the youth offender does not need commitment, it may suspend the imposition or execution of sentence and place the youth offender on probation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Upon conviction (1) of any offense the penalty for which is provided in subsection (b) of this section, subsection (c), (h), or (i) of section 2 of the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, as amended, or such Act of July 11, 1941, as amended, or (2) of any offense the penalty for which is provided in subsection (a) of this section, if it is the offender’s second or subsequent offense, the imposition or execution of sentence shall not be suspended, probation shall not be granted, section 4202 of title 18. of the United States Code shall not apply, and the Act of July 15, 1932 ( 47 Stat. 696 ; D.C.Code 24-201 and following), as amended, shall not apply.””
1 later decision 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.