Lee v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
400 F.2d 185 · 1968
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 1991 · most notably United States v. Batimana (1980), United States v. Minor (1988)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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. § 4161 · 18 U.S.C. § 500
Relies on Stapf v. United States · Benson v. United States · Dunn v. United States · Bryans v. Blackwell · United States v. Smith
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to infer an intent to give credit for a few days or weeks of pre-sentence custody from a failure to confine a defendant for an additional five years by *236 ordering the sentences to run consecutively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in connection with the offense or acts for which sentence was imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Soyka v. Alldredge
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.