Sprouse v. Settle’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.2d 681 · 1960
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably Shelton v. United States Board of Parole (1967), Keyworth C. Birch, Jr. v. Sam A. Anderson (1965)
17 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 Shaver v. Ellis · Schiffman v. Wilkinson · Wipf v. King · United States of America Ex Rel. Roger Touhy, Relator-Appellee v. Joseph E. Ragen, Warden, Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet, Illinois
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““having all of his previously earned good time forfeited; and being required to take up the prison-service of his sentence at the point where this had been left off when he was conditionally released.” [Sprouse v. Settle, 274 F.2d 681, 683-684 (8th Cir., 1960)]. To the same effect are Douglas v. Sigler, 386 F.2d 684, 686 (8th Cir., 1967); Morneau v. United States Board of Parole, 231 F.2d 829 (8th Cir., 1956), cert. denied 351 U.S. 972 , 76 S.Ct. 1037 , 100 L.Ed. 1490 ; Robinson v. Willingham, 369 F.2d 688 (10th Cir., 1966); Taylor v. United States Marshal, 352 F.2d 232 (10th Cir., 1965); Humphrey v. Wilson, 281 F.Supp. 937, 942 (W.D.Mo., 1968).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““A prisoner having served his term or terms less good-time deductions shall, upon release, be deemed as if released on parole until the expiration of the maximum term or terms for which he was sentenced less one hundred and eighty days.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The provisions of § 4161 for good-conduct allowances to a prisoner, and for aggregation of the lengths of the consecutive sentences against him as a basis for arriving at the rate and amount of book-credits necessary to entitle a conditional release to be issued, do not change or affect the legal length of the sentence or sentences against the prisoner, or the time when service of any such sentence is made to commence by the judgment of the court. Sections 4161 and 4162, in conjunction with §§ 4163 and 4164, simply provide a means by which it is possible for a prisoner to achieve a different form or mode of effecting service of part of the term or terms of sentence existing against him, when his accumulation of good time has reached the point where it is entitled to become effective in conditional release.””
1 later decision 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.