Thompson v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(i)nsofar as practical, such institutions and agencies shall only be used for treatment of committed youth offenders, and such youth offenders shall be segregated from other offenders, and classes of committed youth offenders shall be segregated according to their needs for treatment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Micklus v. Carlson · Robinson v. Ralston

2. “It is ... apparent that the issue presented by this factual situation was not in the contemplation of Congress when it enacted the YCA, and that, however we rule, we will be required to fill in the interstices of the statute.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Robinson v. Ralston · Rev. Timothy L. Lewis

3. “By stating that it felt somehow bound to follow the previously imposed Connecticut adult sentence and that but for that sentence it would have granted the requested Youth Act disposition the district court indicated that while, as mandated by Dorszynski , it had `considered the alternative of sentencing under the Act' it had not, as also required by that decision, `decided that the youth offender would not derive benefit from treatment under the Act'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Veney v. United States