United States v. Peglera’s Empirical Analysis
33 F.3d 412 · 1994
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Vaval (2005), United States v. McQueen (1997)
35 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from North Carolina Eastern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · United States v. Harvey · United States v. Brown · United States v. Fentress
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the government is held only to those promises that it actually made to the defendant.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because of the government’s breach of the plea agreement, we grant appellant the requested specific performance and remand this case for resentencing. At the new sentencing, the government is required to satisfy its obligations under the agreement. We remand the case to a different district judge for resentenc-ing as we are required to do. See United States v. Brown, 500 F.2d 375, 378 (4th Cir.1974); see also Santobello, 404 U.S. at 263 , 92 S.Ct. at 499 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ur decision is in no way a reflection on the trial judge, who handled the case admirably under the circumstances. We further believe that the government inadvertently breached the plea agreement rather than acting in bad faith.”
2 later decisions 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.