Lepera v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.2d 433 · 1978
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2013
12 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. United States · Santobello v. New York · McCarthy v. United States · Davis v. United States · Fanchon & Marco, Inc. v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he 'Parole Board has the sole authority to decide when a parole violation warrant will be executed.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] guilty plea is not voluntary if induced by misrepresentation. . . . Brady v. United States , 397 U.S. 742 , 755 , 90 S.Ct. 1463 [, 1472,] 25 L.Ed.2d 747 (1970).”
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.