United States v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
109 F.3d 335 · 1997
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Cotton (2000), United States v. DeLuca (1998)
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Harmelin v. Michigan · Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney · Rummel v. Estelle · Chapman v. United States · United States v. Armstrong
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]otwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who is convicted . . . of a serious violent felony shall be sentenced to [mandatory] life imprisonment " if he has been convicted "on prior occasions . . . of . . . 2 or more serious violent felonies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The prosecutor's power to pursue an enhancement under § 3559(c)(1) is no more problematic than the power to choose between offenses with different maximum sentences. Section 3559(c)(1) does not specify a mandatory sentence for a crime; it sets a minimum sentence for a combination of a serious crime and a repeat violent offender.... `Congress has the power to define criminal punishments without giving the courts any sentencing discretion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The cruel and unusual punishments clause of the eighth amendment permits life imprisonment for a single drug crime, [so that] [l]ife for a repeat bank robber whose record includes murder and attempted murder is an easy case.”
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.