United States v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
496 F.2d 982 · 1974
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Barnes (1979), United States v. Pheaster (1976)
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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. § 5010 · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bruton v. United States · Corallo v. United States · Earley v. DiCenso · Kennedy v. Powell
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is almost axiomatic that the first step toward rehabilitation of an offender is the offender’s recognition that he was at fault. ... [T]o the extent that rehabilitation is the objective, no fault can be found of the judge who takes into consideration the extent of a defendant’s rehabilitation at the time of sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Nooner · State v. Farnham“"Lamia had been told without qualification that he had the right to an attorney and that one would be appointed if he could not afford one." 429 F.2d at 376 . (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]ubstitution of an alternate juror for reasonable cause is the prerogative of the court and does not require the consent of any party.”
2 later decisions 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.