United States v. Chalker’s Empirical Analysis
915 F.2d 1254 · 1990
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3585
Relies on Russello v. United States · Mistretta v. United States · California v. ARC America Corp. · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · Crandon 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Credit for Prior Custody.—A defendant shall be given credit toward the service of a term of imprisonment for any time he has spent in official detention prior to the date the sentence commences—”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Attorney General shall give any ... person credit toward service of his sentence for any days spent in custody in connection with the offense or acts for which the sentence was imposed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it [was] the Attorney General, the Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Prisons, not the courts, which [had] the responsibility of computing sentences and giving credit for time previously served.”
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.