United States v. Ferrera’s Empirical Analysis
746 F.2d 908 · 1984
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Signori (1988), United States v. Tolliver (1995)
24 federal appellate · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651
Relies on Francis v. United States · Yeomans v. Kentucky · United States v. Flaherty · United States v. Eatherton · United States v. Mann
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e foresee little or no resort to Sec. 3651 [FPA] in the future, it having been effectively superceded in most cases by the broader restitution provision of the Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982, 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3579 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“actual damages or loss caused by the offense for which conviction was had.”
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.