Cramer v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 959 · 1974
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Bell v. United States · Rewis v. United States · Gateway Coal Co. v. United Mine Workers
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is certainly nothing to indicate that the judge may select any combination thereof. The Federal Youth Corrections Act is an alternative sentencing provision. At the discretion of the judge a youth offender deemed treatable under the Act can be sentenced to treatment rather than punishment under the applicable penalty provision provided by law. A combination of rehabilitative treatment and retributive punishment is not intended and is improper. See United States v. Waters, 141 U.S.App.D.C. 289 , 437 F.2d 722 , 726 (1970). “We conclude that a judge electing to commit a youth offender for treatment and supervision under the alternative sentencing provisions of the Federal Youth Corrections Act is foreclosed from imposing an additional punitive penalty under another provision. “The convictions are affirmed but the fines imposed are vacated.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By herding youth with maturity, the novice with the sophisticate, the impressionable with the hardened, and by subjecting youth offenders to the evil influences of older criminals and their teaching of criminal techniques, without the inhibitions that come from normal contacts and counteracting prophylaxis, many of our penal institutions actively spread the infection of crime and foster, rather than check, it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) If the court is of the opinion that the youth offender does not need commitment, it may suspend the imposition or execution of sentence and place the youth offender on probation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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