United States v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 360 · 1973
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Geraghty v. United States Parole Commission (1978), United States v. Lawrence D. Hartford, AKA 'Larry,' United States of America v. Dale Bowdoin, United States of America v. Mike Newton (1974)
28 federal appellate · 1 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 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 50 U.S.C. § 3811
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · Bradley v. United States · Woosley v. United States · McGee v. United States · United States v. Daniels
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We affirm our disapproval of statements by a trial judge reflecting a fixed sentencing policy based on the category of crime rather than on the individualized record of the defendant.”
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.