United States v. Stratton’s Empirical Analysis
820 F.2d 562 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Rogers (1990), United States v. Merritt (1993)
17 federal appellate · 3 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. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on Roberts v. United States · United States v. Stratton · Mallette v. Scully · Zeebouw Tijdelijke v.s/s Roman Pazinski · United States v. Ramos
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘It is one thing to extend leniency to a defendant who is willing to cooperate with the government; it is quite another thing to administer additional punishment to a defendant who by his silence has committed no additional offense.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“convince [him] that cooperation with the government is in [his] best interest.”
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.