United States v. Petitto’s Empirical Analysis
767 F.2d 607 · 1985
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Mealy (1988), United States v. Fernandez-Angulo (1990)
96 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on United States v. Tucker · Townsend v. Burke · McNeil v. Director, Patuxent Institution · United States v. Satterfield · United States v. Weston
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall afford the defendant and his counsel an opportunity to comment on the [presentencing] report and, in the discretion of the court, to introduce testimony or other information relating to any alleged factual inaccuracy contained in it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Due process does not require an evidentiary hearing ... on all challenged information in the presentence report.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of Rule 32(c)(3)(D) is to ensure that a record is made as to the resolution of the controverted matters and to ensure that the resolution of those controversies comes to the attention of the agencies [such as prison and parole agencies] who utilize the presentence report.”
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.