United States v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 419 · 1991
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably United States v. Bland (1992), United States v. Marks (2000)
23 federal appellate · 4 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. § 3572 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5801 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5802 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 991
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Harmelin v. Michigan · United States v. Draper · United States v. Lewis · United States v. Doe
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“offended only by an extreme disparity between crime and sentence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“although only two Justices [Rehnquist and Scalia] would have held that the eighth amendment has no proportionality requirement, five Justices [Kennedy, O’Connor, and Souter, along with Rehnquist and Scalia] agree that there is no requirement of strict proportionality.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coy v. Renico · Dumas v. State
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.