Blake v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 203 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2004
11 federal appellate ·
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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · United States v. Tucker · United States v. Eschweiler · United States v. Rone · Johnson 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]aithful adherence to the straightforward procedural requirements [of Rule 32(c)(3)(D) ] will spare all levels of the judiciary the time and effort of revisiting criminal sentences, the finality of which should be settled at the time they are imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the procedures mandated by Rule 32(c)(3)(D) are not discretionary but are, in fact, mandatory.”
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.