United States v. Ruster’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.2d 409 · 1983
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably United States v. Stewart (1985), United States v. Messer (1986)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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. § 287 · 42 U.S.C. § 408 (§ 208 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on United States v. Gilliland · Edgington v. United States · Farrow v. United States · United States v. Sangrey · United States v. Bradshaw
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a trial judge relies on materially false or unreliable information in sentencing a defendant, the defendant's due process rights are violated.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e will vacate a sentence on appeal only if the challenged information is both false or unreliable, and demonstrably made the basis for the sentence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“do we require ... where there are numerous similar previous incidents, that the trial judge separately balance on the record the probative value against the prejudice that might arise from the mention of each individual incident.”
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.