United States v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 445 · 1976
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2002 · most notably United States v. Parr (1979), United States v. Martinez (1980)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 3141 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 591
Relies on Gotthelf v. Commissioner · United States v. Gonware · United States v. Eisner · Stuyvesant Insurance 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(l)ike any other contract a bail bond should be construed to give effect to the reasonable intentions of the parties.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(the defendant is) to abide any judgment entered in such matter by surrendering himself to serve any sentence imposed and obeying any order or direction in connection with such judgment as the court imposing it may prescribe.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“]I]t is a common practice in the federal courts as well as the state courts, for defendants to request and for courts to grant short stays of execution of sentence to allow defendants to put their affairs in order before they start to serve their sentence. . . . Given this widespread practice, it is reasonable that the parties to this bail bond intended that the surety would remain liable during a reasonable stay of execution of the sentence.”
2 later decisions 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.