United States v. Fischer’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 557 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably United States v. Warner (1994), United States v. Gattas (1988)
29 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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Ursillo · United States v. Leath · United States v. Lurz · 618 F. Supp. 1419 - United States v. Williams
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not provide the district court with jurisdiction to hear a motion making a post-judgment collateral attack on one's sentence”
4 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.