Woosley v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 139 · 1973
Citation profile
155 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 225 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. Calvert (1975), United States v. Harris (1977)
155 federal appellate · 62 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 28 U.S.C. § 2106 · 50 U.S.C. § 3806 · 50 U.S.C. § 3811
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Gore 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 225 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The broad and unreviewable discretion possessed by federal district courts in matters of sentencing does not extend to the meting out of punishment manifestly disproportionate to the nature of the crime and the character of the criminal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““We reject the view that in all cases the trial judge’s-action is immune from review simply because we do not ordinarily review sentences within statutory limits. Although a trial judge possesses wide discretion in sentencing, he is not free to ignore sentencing guidelines established by the Supreme Court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A sentence within the statutory maximum which is "greatly excessive under traditional concepts of justice” or "manifestly disproportionate to the crime or criminal” is reviewable by federal appellate courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.