United States v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
269 F.2d 394 · 1959
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1979
15 federal appellate · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 5005
Relies on Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Sullivan v. Ashe · United States v. Sawyer · Martin 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * [I]t is settled law that the fixing of penalties for crimes is a legislative function. A sentence within the limits prescribed by law for an offense will not ordinarily be regarded as cruel or unusual or excessive punishment. * * * The penalty called for by the statute was within the power of the Congress to establish. It is not for the courts to disturb.””
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.