United States v. Plain’s Empirical Analysis
856 F.2d 913 · 1988
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably United States v. Arvanitis (1990), United States v. Nowicki (1989)
26 federal appellate · 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 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Tucker · Townsend v. Burke · Lord Electric Co. v. United States · United States v. Addonizio
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'is ambiguous with respect to the time and manner in which it is to be served, is internally contradictory, omits a term required to be imposed by statute, is uncertain as to the substance of the sentence, or is a sentence which the judgment of conviction does not authorize.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court may correct an illegal sentence at any time and may correct a sentence imposed in an illegal manner within the time provided herein for the reduction of sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A district judge may properly consider [parole] eligibility in determining a sentence.'”
2 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.