United States v. Van Winrow’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 1069 · 1991
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), United States v. Martinez (1992)
49 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Harmelin v. Michigan · Marks v. United States · Mempa v. Rhay · Garcia v. United States · United States v. Pickett
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Eighth Amendment does not require individualized sentencing for sentences other than death.”
4 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.