United States v. Bolinger’s Empirical Analysis
940 F.2d 478 · 1991
Citation profile
221 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 394 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. Marin (1992), United States v. Bushert (1993)
221 federal appellate · 1 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 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on Abney v. United States · Jones v. Barnes · Weaver v. Graham · Miller v. Florida · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife.
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 394 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n express waiver of the right to appeal in a negotiated plea of guilty is valid if knowingly and voluntarily made.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a result of an incorrect application of the sentencing guidelines.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not in accordance with the negotiated agreement.”
8 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.