United States v. Branco’s Empirical Analysis
798 F.2d 1302 · 1986
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. Payne (1991), United States v. Devin (1990)
30 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 473 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 144 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Massiah v. United States · United States v. Tucker · Brewer v. Williams · Dorszynski v. United States · Berger 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“accorded virtually unfettered discretion in imposing sentences[;] ... with strictly limited exception, sentences that [fell] within statutory limits [were] not subject to appellate review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e will reverse a district court's denial of a motion for recusal only if the decision was an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Disqualification motion filed after trial and judgment is usually considered untimely ... for otherwise a party alleging bias would always await judgment in the hopes of a favorable decision.”
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.