Durst v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 9 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2007 · most notably Ralston v. Robinson (1982), Tuten v. United States (1983)
57 federal appellate · 9 district · 19 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Oliver (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Dorszynski v. United States · Roberts v. Louisiana · United States v. Buechler · United States v. Robert Bill Hayes, United States of America v. Neil Eugene Meicke
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly reveal[ed] Congress intended ... to preserve to sentencing judges their powers under the general probation statute when sentencing youth offenders to probation,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) particularly valuable benefit for a YCA offender sentenced under the YCA is the prospect of obtaining a certificate setting aside his commitment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in excess of six months and provide that the defendant be confined in a jail-type institution or a treatment institution for a period not exceeding six months and that the execution of the remainder of the sentence be suspended and the defendant placed on probation for such period and upon such terms and conditions as the court deems best.”
2 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.