United States v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.2d 415 · 1978
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. Hernandez (1991)
46 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Brown v. Ohio · Dunn v. United States · Bullock 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hoever forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] court may ... in a proper case impose separate and consecutive sentences for violation of different statutory provisions in a single transaction. The test ‘is whether each provision requires proof of a fact which the other does not.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here a sentence has been imposed in violation of a constitutional or statutory right, the appellate court may in a proper case 'correct the sentence rather than remanding the case for the execution of [a] ministerial act.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.