United States v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.2d 947 · 1976
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably United States v. Holder (1977), United States v. Heller (1992)
19 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. § 3146 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3150 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3152 (§ 201 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 569 · 28 U.S.C. § 956
Relies on Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Cataldo v. United States · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · United States v. DePugh · United States v. Clark
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, general rules of construction cannot be used to ignore the statute’s manifest purpose. The obvious intent of Congress under 18 U.S.C. § 3150 was to”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any court or judicial officer as required.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whoever, having been released pursuant to this chapter, willfully fails to appear before any court or judicial officer as required, shall, subject to the provisions of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, incur a forfeiture of any security which was given or pledged for his release, and, in addition, shall, (1) if he was released in connection with a charge of felony, or while awaiting sentence or pending appeal or certiorari after conviction of any offense, be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both .... ””
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.