United States v. Ringling’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 504 · 1993
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Blick (2005), United States v. Johnson (2005)
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · United States v. Harvey
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plea bargains rest on contractual principles, and each party should receive the benefit of its bargain.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“both constitutional and supervisory concerns require holding the government to a greater degree of responsibility than the defendant (or possibly than would be either of the parties to a commercial contract) for imprecisions or ambiguities in plea agreements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Francis
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.