Cherry v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.2d 325 · 1962
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 18 U.S.C. § 5010 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gillespie v. Hunter · United States v. Huggins
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . gives a judge three choices at the time for sentencing a youth offender. He may place the latter on probation (Sec. 5010(a)), sentence him to the custody of the Attorney General for treatment and supervision, (Secs. 5010(b), (c)), or sentence him as an adult (Sec. 5010(d)).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think that ‘probation’, as used in § 5010(a) means probation as defined in §§ 3651 and 3653 (see § 5023(a)).” Cherry v. United States, 299 F.2d 325, 326 (9 Cir.).”
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.