United States v. Savage’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 1136 · 1992
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States of America v. Gamma Tech Industries Inc (2001), United States v. Kuchinski (2006)
26 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Lane v. Peterson · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · Marino v. Ortiz · Adman v. United States · First National Bank 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]ither party [is] entitled to modify its position and even withdraw its consent to [a plea bargain] until the plea is tendered and the bargain as it then exists is accepted by the court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plea agreements are subject to contract-law standards of interpretation. Plea bargaining is governed by Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Under that rule, a trial court retains discretion in rejecting or accepting plea bargains.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]either the defendant nor the government is bound by a plea agreement until it is approved by the court.”); United States v. Fagan, 996 F.2d 1009, 1013 (9th Cir.1993) (”
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.