Sash v. Zenk’s Empirical Analysis
439 F.3d 61 · 2006
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2021
10 federal appellate ·
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. § 3585
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Wolff v. McDonnell · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Weaver v. Graham
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule of lenity concerns situations in which a legislature fails to give notice of the scope of punishment by leaving “a grievous ambiguity or uncertainty in the language and structure of the statute, such that even after a court has seized everything from which aid can be derived, it is still left with an ambiguous statute,” Chapman v. United States, 500 U.S. 453, 463 , 111 S.Ct. 1919 , 114 L.Ed.2d 524 (1991), in which case the rule of lenity tips the scales in favor of the defendant by requiring the court to impose the lesser of two penalties.”
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.