Aponte v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 705 · 1993
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Johns (1993), Ortiz-Sandoval v. Gomez (1996)
24 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Weaver v. Graham · Bouie v. City of Columbia · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Mmahat v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. · Anderson v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“punishment for acts not punishable at the time the offense was committed and the imposition of an additional punishment beyond that permitted at the time of the offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Critical to relief under the Ex Post Facto Clause is not an individual's right to less punishment, but the lack of fair notice and governmental restraint beyond what was proscribed when the crime was consummated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is untenable or amounts to a subterfuge to avoid federal review of a constitutional violation.”
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.