United States v. Feldhacker’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 293 · 1988
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably United States v. Browning (1995), United States v. Lewis (1993)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 1623 · 18 U.S.C. § 3147 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Nix v. Williams · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Rodriguez v. United States · Rinaldi 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a term of imprisonment of not more than ten years if the offense is a felony; or (2) a term of imprisonment of not more than one year if the offense is a misdemeanor. A term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be consecutive to any other sentence of imprisonment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is a self-executing and mandatory provision of law, addressed by Congress to sentencing courts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is conceded that the government told defendants during pre-trial negotiations that it intended to rely, in the event of a conviction, on the sentence-enhancement provisions of § 3147. Defendants do not claim that this notice was inadequate in the sense that it left them with insufficient time to prepare a defense to the government’s assertion that § 3147 would apply in the event of a conviction.”
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.