United States v. Wilkins’s Empirical Analysis
911 F.2d 337 · 1990
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably United States v. Mondello (1991), United States v. Morehead (1992)
43 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 3571 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Lockett v. Ohio · Solem v. Helm · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Rummel v. Estelle
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“due process is not violated merely because a statute divests the district court of the discretion to sentence as he might wish.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Criminal defendants do not have a constitutional right to individualized sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ehrsam v. Rubenstein
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.