United States v. Jimenez’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 356 · 1991
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably United States v. Roederer (1993), United States v. Simmons (1992)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Isaksen v. Vermont Castings, Inc. · Nobile v. Schindler
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“according to what [the defendant] reasonably understood when he entered his plea.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n agreement to keep the judge ignorant of pertinent information cannot be enforceable, because a sentencing court 'must be permitted to consider any and all information that might reasonably bear on the proper sentence for the particular defendant, given the crime committed.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is clear that the fact that a plea agreement has been entered into between the government and a defendant cannot alone prohibit the government from bringing relevant information to the attention of the trial judge at the time of sentencing. In fact, the prosecutor has an ethical duty to disclose such information ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. U.S. v. Aragon
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.