Stapf v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• presumption that credit for presentence custody for want of bail has been given applies whenever a defendant receives less than a maximum sentence
• “Wherever it is possible, as a matter of mechanical calculation, that credit could have been given, we will conclusively presume it was given”
• “Denial of credit ... where others guilty of crimes of the same or greater magnitude automatically receive credit, would entail an arbitrary discrimination within the power and hence the duty of the court to avoid.”

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Cited by

78 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Speaks
  Washington Supreme Court· 1992-05-21· cited 83×
• Checkosky v. Sec
  D.C. Circuit· 1994-05-20· cited 74×
• People v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1971-10-04· cited 70×
• Frank Soyka v. Noah L. Alldredge, Warden of the United States Northeast Penitentiary
  Third Circuit· 1973-07-10· cited 69×
• Jonah R. v. Gilbert Carmona
  Ninth Circuit· 2006-05-02· cited 68×
• William Dunn v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1967-07-27· cited 63×
• United States v. Thomas Patrick Smith
  Seventh Circuit· 1967-07-14· cited 63×
• Reanier v. Smith
  Washington Supreme Court· 1974-01-10· cited 60×
• Michael R. King v. Donald W. Wyrick, Warden, Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri
  Eighth Circuit· 1975-05-21· cited 59×
• United States v. A. D. Allison
  Ninth Circuit· 1969-06-17· cited 58×
• Ziya K. Koray v. Frank Sizer United States Bureau of Prisons Attorney General of the United States
  Third Circuit· 1994-04-25· cited 53×
• Morris Wilbur Lee v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1968-08-14· cited 52×
• Laden v. Warden
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1975-09-16· cited 48×
• Joseph N. Gremillion v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden
  Fifth Circuit· 1970-05-15· cited 42×
• Paul Luna Vasquez v. Thomas Cooper
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-11-30· cited 37×
• Manning v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1977-04-13· cited 33×
• State v. Lohnes
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1978-05-18· cited 27×
• Checkosky v. Securities & Exchange Commission
  D.C. Circuit· 1994-05-20· cited 25×
• Leslie C. Bostick and Charles P. Lainhart v. United States of America, Leslie C. Bostick v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-01-27· cited 23×
• Morton Sobell v. United States
  Second Circuit· 1969-01-14· cited 23×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Shelley v. Kraemer
  Supreme Court· 1948-05-03· cited 1,913×
• Katzenbach v. Morgan
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 759×
• Webster v. Fall
  Supreme Court· 1925-01-05· cited 673×
• Draper v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 654×
• Yates v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-05-05· cited 73×
• Willie L. Short, Jr. v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1965-03-19· cited 49×
• Byers v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1949-07-06· cited 23×
• Carlton S. Scott v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1964-01-22· cited 11×
• Raymond W. Epperson v. Sam A. Anderson, Superintendent, D. C. Jail
  D.C. Circuit· 1963-12-19· cited 11×
• John Joseph Powers v. John C. Taylor, Warden United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas
  Tenth Circuit· 1964-02-26· cited 11×
• Thomas Williams v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1964-06-25· cited 9×

Other cases named Stapf v. United States

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Stapf v. United States
  N.D. Texas· 1960-08-08· cited 7×
• Stapf v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1965-01-25
• Stapf v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23