Fields v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.2d 472 · 1976
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
August 1982
most recently cited
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lee v. United States · Kortness v. United States · United States v. White · McCoy v. United States Board of Parole
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Kortness decision is a limited one and does not give sentencing judges the authority to supervise, control, or second-guess the Parole Board. But the doctrine of Kortness does permit the district court to correct a sentencing error where the import of the judge’s sentence has in fact been changed by guidelines adopted by the Parole Board contemporaneous with or subsequent to the imposition of that sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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