Stapf v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
367 F.2d 326 · 1966
Citation profile
151 federal appellate · 10 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 246 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Checkosky v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1994), Dunn v. United States (1967)
151 federal appellate · 10 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2312 · 18 U.S.C. § 5010
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Shelley v. Kraemer · Katzenbach v. Morgan · Draper v. Washington · Webster v. Fall
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 246 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * give any such person credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in custody prior to the imposition of sentence by the sentencing court for want of bail set for the offense under which sentence was imposed where the statute requires the imposition of a minimum mandatory sentence.” (1960 amendment to § 3568, Title 18, U.S.C., emphasis added.)”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(w)herever it is possible, as a matter of mechanical calculation, that (it) could have been given.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It (1966 Amendment) also assures credit for all pre-sentence custody, and not merely custody for want of bail.” (Emphasis added.)”
7 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.