United States v. Plechner’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 596 · 1978
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Greenhow v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1988), United States v. Abernathy (1985)
42 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3565 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 963
Relies on Rothman v. Hospital Service · United States v. Taylor · Krause v. Sacramento Inn · United States v. Gonware
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A bail bond is a contract between the government and the defendant and his surety---Upon forfeiture, the surety becomes the government’s debtor____ Thus the government’s motion for judgment [is] ‘civil, not criminal, in nature.”’”
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.