United States v. Latimer’s Empirical Analysis
415 F.2d 1288 · 1969
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Woosley v. United States (1973), United States v. Jones (1976)
40 federal appellate · 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 10 U.S.C. § 808 · 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002)
Relies on Thompson v. United States · Livers v. United States · United States v. Trice · Gill v. Miller
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the possibility that the district court may have sentenced Latimer for a more serious offense than the one for which he was convicted . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under Rule 32(c) Fed.R.Crim.P. the District Court has available to it information in the presentence report which is helpful in assessing the punishment to be given a defendant. The decision to disclose the information in this report to the defendant or his counsel and to give them an opportunity to comment on it is left to the discretion of the District Court. Rule 32(c) (2), Fed.R.Crim.P.; Thompson v. United States, 381 F.2d 664 (10th Cir.). See also United States v. Trice, 412 F.2d 209 (6th Cir.).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The sentencing of one convicted of a crime is largely dependent on matters which are within the knowledge, experience and judgment of the sentencing court. For this reason the District Courts are given broad discretion in assessing punishment within the limits of the various federal statutes. On appeal this Court will not disturb that sentence unless there has been a gross abuse of discretion.”
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.