United States v. DiRusso’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 673 · 1976
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Cohen v. United States (1979), Wright v. United States Board of Parole (1977)
34 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 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
Relies on Braden v. 30th Judicial Circuit Court of Kentucky · Ahrens v. Clark · Thomas v. United States · United States v. Slusky · Lee 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The concept of [an illegal sentence] has been held to include ... sentences premised upon a major misunderstanding by the sentencing judge as to the legal bounds of his authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Section 2255 ... does not grant jurisdiction over a post-conviction claim attacking the execution, rather than the imposition or illegality of the sentence.... The proper vehicle for attacking the execution of sentence ... is 28 U.S.C. § 2241.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. No. 96-2355“a responsibility to correct a sentence which was imposed under a misapprehension as to (its) potential impact.”
1 later decision 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.