United States v. Patrone’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 813 · 1991
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably United States v. Zapata (1994), United States v. Bell (1993)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · United States v. Tucker · Rosenberg v. Comerica Bank · Austin Products Co. v. Workers' Compensation Insurers Rating Association of Minnesota · GLK, Inc. v. United States
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As explained in Patrone, we interpret this provision to mean that a nolo contendere plea followed by a deferred sentence (or other sentence described in § 12-18-3(b)) constitutes a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall not apply to any person who is sentenced to serve a term in the adult correctional institution or who is given a suspended or deferred sentence in addition to probation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“or deferred sentence in addition to probation.”
1 later decision 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.