Armstead v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 8 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Appellant remained in the custody of the Department at all times and his place of limited confinement in a halfway house was but a substitute for a more structured environment of the minimum security facility from which he was transferred. He remained in a penal institution of the District of Columbia for purposes of the breach of prison statute and did escape therefrom. Accordingly the court did not err in finding that the government had proved beyond a reasonable doubt each element of the offense. [ 310 A.2d at 256 (footnote omitted).]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Days v. United States · United States v. Venable

2. “Any person committed to a penal institution of the District of Columbia who escapes or attempts to escape therefrom, or from the custody of any officer thereof or any other officer or employee of the District of Columbia, or any person who procures, advises, connives at, aids, or assists in such escape, . . . shall be guilty of an offense and upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States shall be punished by imprisonment .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rindgo v. United States · Days v. United States