In re Strickler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 30 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It will be observed that the attempt to carry this sentence into effect was made after the expiration of ninety days from the date of the sentence, and the question here presented is whether the district court could lawfully sentence the defendant to imprisonment in the county jail, and then suspend its execution, to be enforced at some future time on the happening of a contingency named in the judgment.” (Page 701.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Murphy

2. ““This would leave the defendant in a very uncertain situation. He would be unable to tell for an indefinite period whether he was a free man or a convict, and while the sentence, in terms, might be for but ninety days’ imprisonment, it would be, in effect, far more severe because of the uncertainty as to the time of its execution.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Peterson

3. ““When a sentence has been pronounced by the court, its operation begins at once, and under the section just quoted it is the duty of the sheriff to immediately proceed to carry the sentence into effect.” (p. 702.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Krig