Bunker v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
550 F.2d 1155 · 1977
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 1999 · most notably United States v. Baylin (1982), United States v. Turner (1989)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on McCarthy v. United States · Linkletter v. Walker · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Kercheval v. United States · Halliday 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other parole provided for by law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(M)any aspects of traditional parole need not be communicated to the defendant by the trial judge under the umbrella of Rule 11. For example, a defendant need not be advised of all conceivable consequences such as when he may be considered for parole or that, if he violates his parole, he will again be imprisoned. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) . . . the mandatory minimum penalty provided by law, if any, and the maximum possible penalty provided by law; .”
2 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.