United States v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.3d 708 · 1994
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably United States v. Bonanno (1998), United States v. Meléndez-Santana (2003)
17 federal appellate · 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 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Johnson v. Derwinski · Kiamichi Area Vocational-Technical School District No. 7 v. Short · McKnight v. General Motors Corp. · United States v. Villano · Wilson v. O'Leary
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court at any time and after such notice, if any, as the court orders.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If an inconsistency exists between an oral and the later written sentence, the sentence pronounced from the bench controls.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“correct a sentence that was imposed as a result of arithmetical, technical, or other clear error.”
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.