United States v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.2d 367 · 1962
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
July 1988
most recently cited
15 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 113
Relies on Boykin v. Huff · Riffle v. United States · Ong v. Hunter · Valdez 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A letter written by an indigent prisoner within the time for appeal informing the trial court of a desire to appeal may be regarded as sufficient to constitute the taking of an appeal .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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