United States v. Legrano’s Empirical Analysis
659 F.2d 17 · 1981
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably United States v. Charmer Industries, Inc. (1983), United States v. Johnson (1985)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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. § 2342 · 18 U.S.C. § 2344
Relies on United States v. Tucker · Mackay v. Nesbett · United States v. Needles · Jones v. United States
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sentence which is within statutory limits is generally not subject to review.”
3 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.