United States v. Gallegos-Curiel’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 1164 · 1982
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Wade v. United States (1992), United States v. Garza-Juarez (1993)
74 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 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. § 3731 · 8 U.S.C. § 1325 (§ 275 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Rideout v. United States · Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. Goodwin
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When increased charges are filed in the routine course of prosecutorial review or as a result of continuing investigation, there is no realistic likelihood of prosecutorial abuse, and therefore no appearance of vindictive prosecution arises merely because the prosecutor's action was taken after a defense right was exercised.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'very real likelihood of actual vindictiveness.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“realistic likelihood of 'vindictiveness.'”
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.