Michael Stephen Blake v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2004
15 federal appellate · 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 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 24 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.