United States v. Bascomb’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.3d 1292 · 2006
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably United States v. DiFalco (2016), United States v. Dixon (2018)
5 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Solem v. Helm · United States v. Brown · United States v. Rubbo · United States v. Howle · United States v. Pease
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“LIMITED WAIVER OF APPEAL: To the maximum extent permitted by federal law, the defendant voluntarily and expressly waives the right to appeal his sentence and the right to collaterally attack his sentence in any post-conviction proceeding on any ground, expect that the defendant may file a direct appeal of an upward departure from the otherwise applicable guideline range. The defendant understands that this Plea Agreement does not limit the Government’s right to appeal, but if the Government appeals the sentence imposed, the defendant may also file a direct appeal of his sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“what really counts ... is what the defendant and the government agreed to in the plea bargain.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“altering the terms of that waiver would ... cut the heart out of the bargain.”
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.