United States v. Woody’s Empirical Analysis
567 F.2d 1353 · 1978
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Brown (1984), United States v. Ashley (1978)
36 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 8 U.S.C. § 1357 (§ 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · United States v. Martinez-Fuerte · Gardner v. Florida
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the opinion of the court the report contains diagnostic opinion which might seriously disrupt a program of rehabilitation, sources of information obtained upon a promise of confidentiality, or any other information which, if disclosed, might result in harm, physical or otherwise, to the defendant or other persons ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the summary should, in a manner as specific as the facts permit, inform the defendant of the nature of the information .... The trial court must, on a case by ease basis, balance the policy of making disclosure as specific as possible with the need to preserve confidentiality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court in lieu of making the report or part thereof available shall state orally or in writing a summary of the factual information contained therein to be relied on in determining sentence, and shall give the defendant or his counsel an opportunity to comment thereon.”
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.