United States v. Vaval’s Empirical Analysis
404 F.3d 144 · 2005
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Snype (2006), United States v. Moncivais (2007)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 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. § 2114 · 18 U.S.C. § 2119 · 18 U.S.C. § 3663 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Olano · Santobello v. New York · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Dominguez Benitez
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“volunteered highly negative characterizations of appellant's criminal history as `appalling' and his purported contrition as `disingenuous,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ ‘seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.’ ”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in order to preserve the integrity of plea bargaining procedures and public confidence in the criminal justice system, a defendant is generally entitled to the enforcement of a plea agreement without showing a tangible harm resulting from a breach.”
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.