United States v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
581 F.2d 984 · 1978
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Community-Service Broadcasting of Mid-America, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (1978), Mills v. United States (1983)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act)
Relies on Holloway v. Arkansas · Avery v. State of Alabama · Steiner v. Mitchell · United States v. DeCoster · United States v. Thompson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) Waiving maximum amounts. — Payments in excess of any maximum amount provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection may be made for extended or complex representation whenever the court in which the representation was rendered, or the United States magistrate if the representation was furnished exclusively before him, certifies that the amount of the excess payment is necessary to provide fair compensation and the payment is approved by the chief judge of the circuit. The chief judge of the circuit may delegate such approval authority to an active circuit judge.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of the Act, as stated in its preamble, is `[t]o promote the cause of criminal justice by providing for the representation of defendants who are financially unable to obtain an adequate defense in criminal cases in the courts of the United States.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“special significance ... as an expression of the purpose the new statute was intended to serve.”
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.