United States v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
669 F.2d 216 · 1982
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States v. Bruchey (1987), United States v. Kunzman (1997)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Roberts v. United States · Korematsu v. United States · United States v. Tonry · 83 Wis. 2d 790 - Huggett v. State · United States v. Johnson
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the principal aim of the probation condition were to make the [creditor] whole, this argument might have some appeal. In fact, though, while recompense to the victim is a usually laudable consequence of restitution, the focus of any probation regimen is on the offender. The order of probation is ‘an authorized mode of mild and ambulatory punishment ... intended as a reforming discipline.’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“offer any reason to restrict the losses for which restitution is authorized to those for which the aggrieved party retains a right of action.”
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.