United States v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
449 F.2d 1086 · 1971
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably United States v. Woods (1973), United States v. Bland (1972)
13 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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. § 5005 · 18 U.S.C. § 5010
Relies on Kent v. United States · Bell v. United States · Ladner v. United States · United States v. Waters · Irby v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The child’s .advocate should search for a plan, or perhaps a range of plans, which may persuade the court that the welfare of the child and the safety of the community can be served without waiver. And the court itself cannot remain inert. It also has a duty to utilize its ‘facilities, personnel and expertise for a proper determination of the waiver issue.’ . . .” (p.1279.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Green“penalty under Pub.L. 85-752, so that a defendant convicted of first degree murder may not be sentenced as a young adult offender under Sec. 4209, which Sec. 7 of Pub.L. 85-752 also makes inapplicable where a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“imprisonment in a penitentiary where (they) would be subject to the influence of hardened adult offenders.”
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.