United States v. McCarter’s Empirical Analysis
406 F.3d 460 · 2005
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. Durham (2011), United States v. Parker (2007)
17 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3013 · 42 U.S.C. § 10601 (Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Booker · Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Lopez · Stirone v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he same physical act can have multiple consequences addressed by different statutes, ... [for example] the defendant [who is] punished separately both for selling drugs and, by that sale, aiding and abetting his buyer to resell the drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“prevent[s] the sentencing court from prescribing greater punishment than the legislature intended.”
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.