United States v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
971 F.2d 620 · 1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2017
7 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Morton v. Mancari · Bibby v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Guidry v. Sheet Metal Workers National Pension Fund
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] sentence of zero months does not literally violate the prohibition on probation in 18 U.S.C. § 3561 (a)(1).”
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.