United States v. Benjamin’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 1069 · 1998
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Moore (2000), United States v. Wells (2000)
27 federal appellate ·
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 Wade v. United States · United States v. Williams · United States v. Barrett · United States v. Garner · United States v. Morrison
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court may only review the government's refusal to make the motion to determine whether the refusal is based on unconstitutional considerations, such as the defendant's race”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court may depart [for substantial assistance] only upon a motion from the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]pon motion of the government stating that the defendant has provided substantial assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.