United States v. Maples’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 985 · 1974
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), United States v. Guglielmi (1991)
22 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2113
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · North Carolina v. Alford · Reed v. Reed · Frontiero v. Richardson · Dorszynski 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I just don't believe in punishing women who participated in a crime with the men on the same basis as a man. ... [B]ecause of your age and the fact that you are a woman, the Court will not incarcerate you for quite as long as I did your co-defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is manifest from the statement of the district judge, in sentencing [the female defendant], that at least a part of the leniency shown her vis-a-vis her codefendants, was the fact that she was a woman.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under current law, and absent any proof that rehabilitation or deterrence are more easily accomplished in the case of females rather than males, we deem the factor of sex an impermissible one to justify a disparity in sentences.”
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.