Payne v. Madigan’s Empirical Analysis
274 F.2d 702 · 1960
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably United States v. Villano (1987), United States v. Garcia (1994)
54 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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 United States v. Daugherty · United States v. Patterson · Spriggs v. United States · Puccinelli v. United States
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * *. The • written judgments and commitments, signed by the judge on the same day, confirm this inference [that the seven sentences, aggregating twelve years, were to be served consecutively]. In our view written judgments and commitments may properly serve the function of resolving ambiguities in orally pronounced sentences.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A judgment of conviction shall set forth the plea, the verdict or findings, and the adjudication and sentence.” (Fed.R.Crim.P. 32, 18 U.S.C.A.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he judgment shall be signed by the judge and entered by the clerk,”
2 later decisions 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.