United States v. Bowers’s Empirical Analysis
834 F.2d 607 · 1987
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Noone (1990), United States v. Thomas (1995)
30 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974)
Relies on Simmons v. United States · United States v. Montoya · United States v. Fry · United States v. Stafford
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plea bargaining process can qualify as one of many 'other proceedings.' " Id. at 610 (citing Montoya, supra, at 150). In Bowers, the defendant failed to communicate his rejection of the tentative plea agreement for half of the speedy trial period. While the court recognized that "[t]he district court was justified in its stated belief that these circumstances constituted an 'extreme case',”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“other proceedings concerning the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“resulting from consideration by the court of a proposed plea agreement to be entered into by the defendant and the attorney for the Government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. U.S. v. White
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.