United States v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 269 · 1978
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2016
10 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Pollard v. United States · Cole v. United States · United States v. Mitchell · Roberts 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Trial delay may prejudice the defendant through oppressive pretrial incarceration, impairment of defense and anxiety. Sentencing delay typically risks only the possible prejudice of anxiety, but the delay also disserves a basic notion that, once convicted, an offender should be able to serve his sentence and be done with it." Howard , 577 F.2d at 270 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen satisfied that the ends of justice and the best interest of the public as well as the defendant will be served thereby,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for such period and upon such terms and conditions as the court deems best.”
1 later decision 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.