United States v. Granderson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
271 federal appellate · 55 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 615 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Lamie v. United States Trustee (2004), Muscarello v. United States (1998)
271 federal appellate · 55 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Granderson (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Russello v. United States · United States v. Bass · United States v. DiFrancesco
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 615 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here text, structure, and history fail to establish that the Government's position is unambiguously correct ... we apply the rule of lenity and resolve the ambiguity in [the defendant]'s favor.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[i]t is beyond our province to rescue Congress from its drafting errors, and to provide for what we might think ... is the preferred result.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Supervised release, in contrast to probation, is not a punishment in lieu of incarceration.”
4 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.