Witte v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
605 federal appellate · 144 district · 298 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,574 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), Blakely v. Washington (2004)
605 federal appellate · 144 district · 298 state decisions — followed in 37 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. Wittie (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Benton v. Maryland · Brown v. Ohio · Mullaney v. Wilbur
Cited together with United States v. Watts · Apprendi v. New Jersey · United States v. Booker · Blakely v. Washington · United States v. Dixon
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 1,574 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to mitigate the possibility that the fortuity of two separate prosecutions will grossly increase a defendant's sentence.”
123 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consideration of relevant conduct in determining a defendant's sentence within the legislatively authorized punishment range does not constitute punishment for that conduct,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] defendant has not been `punished' . . . for double jeopardy purposes when relevant conduct is included in the calculation of his offense level under the Guidelines.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.