United States v. Strunk’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . . Since the sentence he received, the maximum term of five years, was to run concurrently with the one- to three-year sentence he was serving in the Nebraska. State Penitentiary, defendant argues that the delay deprived him of the possibility of crediting the 306 days between indictment and trial to both sentences. In other words, he argues that he received in effect the maximum sentence plus 306 days. His argument is weakened by the possibility that the sentencing court might have postponed commencement of his federal sentence until after he had served his state sentence. . . . ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 54 Ala. App. 546 - Broadnax v. State

2. “indicat[ing] that rather than postponement he desired a speedy disposition of his case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. DeTienne

3. “... is unusual and calls for explanation as well as justification ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Budau