United States v. Caputo’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 972 · 1992
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably United States v. Saro (1994), United States v. Lechuga (1993)
104 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
Relies on Younger v. Harris · United States v. Young · United States v. Frady · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. · Flanagan 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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Conditional discharge] is probation without the probation officer and that is a distinction without a difference so far as the purposes of the guideline exception is concerned.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o impose an unlawful sentence is a miscarriage of justice, and often the determination of the lawfulness of a sentence does not depend on a factual determination”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since unsupervised probation equals conditional discharge, we think the latter should be equated to probation.”
2 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.