Bruss v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
479 F.2d 392 · 1973
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 1996 · most notably Ortega v. United States (1975), Hernandez v. United States Attorney General (1982)
17 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Davis v. Attorney General of United States · Willie F. Ballard v. Olin G. Blackwell · O'Connor v. Attorney General · Ernest J. Jackson v. Attorney General of the United States, No. 71-2024 Summary Calendar. Rule 18, 5th Cir. See Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. Of New York, 5 Cir., 1970, 431 F.2d 409, Part I
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“jail time in question was not spent in connection with the offense or acts for which the federal sentence was imposed, and, consequently, he is not entitled to credit against the federal sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any days spent in custody in connection with the offense or acts for which sentence was imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“jail time served in connection with the federal sentence.”
1 later decision 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.