United States v. Cochran’s Empirical Analysis
883 F.2d 1012 · 1989
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably United States v. Shabani (1994), United States v. Stinson (1996)
29 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 952 · 21 U.S.C. § 960 · 21 U.S.C. § 962 · 21 U.S.C. § 963
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · North Carolina v. Pearce · Bonner v. City of Prichard · United States v. DiFrancesco · United States v. Scott
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny expectation of finality in a sentence is wholly absent where ... the defendant requests that his prior sentence be nullified. The defendant has, by his own hand, defeated his expectation of finality and “the Double Jeopardy Clause, which guards against Government oppression, does not relieve a defendant from the consequences of his voluntary choice.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the power of a court to modify unchallenged sentences may be more limited because `only a specific sentence is before the district court ... [and] [t]he court has power only over what is brought before it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“could remand the case to the district court for resentencing on all counts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.