Stepheney v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.2d 7 · 1975
Citation profile
29
cited by 29 later decisions
March 1988
most recently cited
26 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Tucker · Burgett v. Texas · Lipscomb v. Clark · Brown v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact of seeming general appropriateness now is not enough if the sentencing judge cannot say that he would not have imposed a lesser sentence had he been unaware of the prior conviction or had assumed its invalidity at the time of sentencing.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to remand the proceeding to the District Court in order that it might review the record to determine whether, assuming the invalidity of the three state convictions in question, its sentence would be the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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