United States v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 227 · 1979
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably United States v. Peters (1986), United States v. Marquardt (1986)
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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) · 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Williams v. People of State of New York · Bullock v. United States · United States v. Grayson · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I don’t know what the defense was in this case. I don’t know why the defendant went to trial.... There is absolutely no indication of any remorse, in the sense of having made a mistake, because, of course, there is no admission or concession of any kind.... [I]t is ... my business to take into consideration the nature of the person I am dealing with and the nature of his attitude toward what he had done when I impose sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whenever ... the court finds that funds are available for payment from or on behalf of a person furnished representation, it may authorize or direct that such funds be paid to the appointed attorney, to the bar association or legal aid agency or community defender organization which provided the appointed attorney ....”
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.