United States v. Dobbins’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 130 · 1986
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably United States v. Munoz-Flores (1988), United States v. King (1987)
18 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3013 · 21 U.S.C. § 843 (§ 403 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Pagan · United States v. Mayberry · United States v. Donaldson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ... held that the purpose of Congress in enacting section 3013 was to aid victims of crimes rather than to punish the offenders and that the rule of lenity requiring that any ambiguity in the terms of the statute be construed in favor of the defendant does not apply. United States v. Donaldson, 797 F.2d 125 (3d Cir.1986). We find the Donaldson decision persuasive, and we adopt its holding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“f[ound] the Donaldson decision persuasive,”
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.