Castaldi v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 119 · 1986
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably United States v. Freisinger (1991), United States v. Boone (1989)
34 federal appellate · 1 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. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2421 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 471 (Counterfeit Deterrence Act of 1992) · 18 U.S.C. § 500 · 18 U.S.C. § 501 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on Solem v. Helm · United States v. Tucker · Bell v. United States · United States v. Universal C. I. T. Credit Corp. · Ladner v. United States
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]enerally, a 'claim of a more severe sentence than that received by ... a co-defendant[ ] is not cognizable under 2255.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in many of the cases in which courts have found ... ambiguity [in connection with the allowable unit of prosecution], the object of the offense has been prefaced by the word 'any.' " Id. at 667. After reviewing the statutory language, the legislative history, and the statutory scheme, the court went on to hold that the phrase "any firearm”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“When Congress fails to set the unit of prosecution with clarity, doubt as to congressional intent is resolved in favor of lenity for the accused.”
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.