Chandler v. Barncastle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate ·

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.

1. “This Court follows the Tenth Circuit decision in McConnell v. Martin [ 896 F.2d 441 (1990) ] in holding that a parole violator warrant is not validly executed if the attempted execution is contrary to the Parole Commission’s instructions, and a warrant that was never validly executed can be withdrawn. The warrant for Chandler was not validly executed on August 9, 1982 in that the specific directions on the warrant stated that it should not be executed if the parolee was in state custody. Consequently, the Parole Commission had the authority to release Mr. Chandler from the custody of the warrant, have the warrant replaced as a detainer against him, and suspend the running of his parole violator term____”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cronn v. Burkhart

2. “the Parole Commission alone has the power to choose whether to order that a parole violator warrant be executed or be filed as a detainer. That power to choose would be substantially impaired if a United States Marshal could frus trate it by executing a parole violator warrant that the Commission had directed was not to be executed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 123 F. App'x 179 - Curtis v. USA

3. “reissuance of the old warrant instead of the issuance of an identical new warrant is surely an inconsequential difference of form”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Barnard v. Henman