United States v. Easterling’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 1220 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Rudolph (1999), United States v. Townsend (1999)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Bailey v. United States · Henderson v. Brown · Norman v. Reed · United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan v. Leckie Smokeless Coal Co. · Ansari v. Pahlavi
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is entitled to revisit a petitioner's entire sentence, not just the challenged portion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.