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Kapadia v. Tally’s Empirical Analysis

229 F.3d 641 · 2000

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Rav v. City of St Paul Minnesota · United States v. Abel · Barclay v. Florida · United States Department of Treasury v. Fabe · Wisconsin v. Mitchell

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “did take the comments into consideration because one of the things [the court has] to consider is the possibility of reformation of the defendant. How likely is this defendant to be restored to useful citizenship.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[n]othing in the Constitution prevents the sentencing court from factoring a defendant's statements into sentencing when those statements are relevant to the crime or to legitimate sentencing considerations .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “just another way of stating that Kapadia presented a threat of future dangerousness to the community, a proper consideration under Barclay and Mitchell .”
    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.