United States v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.3d 558 · 1999
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Twigg v. State (2016), United States of America v. Calvin Cornelius Edwards (2000)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Bailey v. United States · United States v. DiFrancesco · Burns v. United States
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is no indication of vindictiveness in resentencing a defendant to exactly the sentence that the defendant would have received but for the erroneous application of 924(c).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause [the defendant] could not expect finality of his sentence on some counts even while he challenged others, [and thus] resentencing was not fundamentally unfair”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Sentences which include § 924(c) counts are particularly well suited to be treated as a package.”
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.