Burns v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.2d 721 · 1932
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1963
7 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on People Ex Rel. Forsyth v. . Court of Sessions · Riggs v. United States · Campbell v. Aderhold · United States ex rel. Grossberg v. Mulligan · People v. Dudley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It should be borne in mind in dealing with the question of probation and violation thereof, that the extending of probation to a person convicted of crime is purely a matter of grace, and that the revocation thereof is merely a withdrawal of the leniency so extended. The term of imprisonment which follows the revocation of probation is for the commission of the offense with which the probationer stands convicted, and is not in any sense a punishment for the violation of the terms of the probation. . . . Should the coui’ts under such circumstances attach conditions and restrictions to the power of the trial judge? The whole theory of probation is that of giving to the convicted person an opportunity for reformation, and, when it is manifest that the probationer is not taking. advantage of the opportunity given him, probation should be revoked, and the appropriate sentence for the crime theretofore committed should be imposed or executed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sutton v. State“a technical escape, but upon the fact that the appellant had not acted in good faith in carrying out the order of the trial judge, but, on the contrary, had taken advantage of a general permit to carry out his own purposes quite independently of the basis and theory upon which the order was given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Q. When you left the jail and didn’t go to the dentist’s office, were you and Lessner [a deputy marshal] riding around or were you at your house and would Lessner ride around? Is that right? A. Yes.”
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.