United States v. Brubaker’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 764 · 1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably United States v. Espinosa (1985), United States v. Jones (1986)
27 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
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · Townsend v. Burke · United States v. Bailey · Herko v. United States · Billiteri v. United States Board of Parole
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule on review of sentences in the federal courts is: ‘once it is determined that a sentence is within the limitations set forth in the statute under which it is imposed, appellate review is at an end,’ unless the sentencing judge relied on improper or unreliable information in exercising his or her discretion, or failed to exercise any discretion at all, in imposing sentence.””
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.