United States v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 534 · 1983
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Satterfield (1984), United States v. Darby (1984)
29 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Castor v. United States · Armedo-Sarmiento v. United States · United States v. Armedo-Sarmiento · United States v. Espinoza
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.
“to enable it to exercise its sentencing discretion in an enlightened manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“right not to be sentenced on the basis of invalid premises or inaccurate information.”
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.