United States v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.3d 82 · 2009
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Dávila-González (2010), United States v. Miller (2010)
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Dunnigan · Arizona v. California · United States v. Zannino · United States v. Martin · United States v. Morrison
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not entitled to a lighter sentence merely because his co-defendants received lighter sentences.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“doctrine posits that when a court decides upon a rule of law, that decision should continue to govern the same issues in subsequent stages in the same case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prevents relitigation in the trial court of matters that were explicitly or implicitly decided by an earlier appellate decision in the same case.”
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.