Lang v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.3d 348 · 2007
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Booker · Slack v. McDaniel · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Teague v. Lane
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] second or successive [application] must be certified as provided in section 2244 by a panel of the appropriate court of appeals”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could have been raised in the first petition but [were] not so raised, either due to deliberate abandonment or inexcusable neglect.”
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.