United States v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 214 · 1980
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably United States v. Baylin (1982), United States v. Block (1981)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Grandinetti · 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... we cannot conclude that the government violated the terms of the plea agreement by providing the probation officer with information on the defendant’s background and character for presentence investigation purposes. The government only promised to make no recommendation and stand mute at the time of sentencing. We cannot construe this promise to obligate the government to withhold the disclosure of pertinent information on the defendant’s background and character from the sentencing judge.”
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.