Roddy v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.2d 9 · 1961
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United State v. Morgan · Holiday v. Johnston · Plummer v. United States · United States v. Karavias
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assumming that the failure to take the appellant before the United States Commissioner constituted an illegal arrest, an illegal arrest does not void a conviction, nor is it grounds for a collateral attack upon a judgment of conviction.” (p. 10.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanes v. State““Before imposing sentence, the court shall afford the defendant an opportunity to make a statement in his own behalf, and to present any information in mitigation of punishment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Doyle
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.