United States v. LaBonte’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
363 federal appellate · 76 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 828 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Carachuri-Rosendo v. Holder (2010), United States v. Johnson (2006)
363 federal appellate · 76 district · 29 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Labonte (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3565 · 18 U.S.C. § 3581 · 18 U.S.C. § 3584 · 18 U.S.C. § 5037 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Koon v. United States · Mistretta v. United States · Stinson v. United States · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 828 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Insofar as prosecutors, as a practical matter, may be able to determine whether a particular defendant will be subject to the enhanced statutory maximum, any such discretion would be similar to the discretion a prosecutor exercises when he decides what, if any, charges to bring against a criminal suspect. Such discretion is an integral feature of the criminal justice system, and is appropriate, so long as it is not based upon improper factors.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e assume that in drafting ... legislation, Congress said what it meant.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`significant discretion in formulating guidelines'”
6 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.