United States v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.2d 906 · 1979
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably United States v. Arnett (1979), Frank v. Blackburn (1980)
19 federal appellate · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · United States v. Peter A. Crusco and Phillip A. Cimmino. Appeal of Phillip Cimmino · United States v. Ewing · United States v. Miller · United States v. Shanahan
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.
“means at the least that the prosecutor will say nothing to the judge that would influence the sentencing decision.”
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.