United States v. William Eugene Carter

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that violations of plea agreements “are intolerable and adversely impact the integrity of the prosecutorial office and the entire judicial system”
• finding that where the government negotiates a plea agreement through the agency of a specific United States Attorney, the agreement binds the United States government at large
• finding that where the government negotiates a plea agreement through the agency of a specific United States Attorney, the agreement binds the United States government at large
• prosecutor's promise that charges in a different district would be dropped required dismissal of those charges
• prosecutor’s promise that charges in a different district would be dropped required dismissal of those charges
• contract signed by an authorized official of the Government bound the entire Government, because \[t]he United States government is the United States government throughout all of the states and districts\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

130 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Michael Lee Harvey
  Fourth Circuit· 1986-05-22· cited 295×
• United States v. Heldt
  D.C. Circuit· 1981-10-02· cited 272×
• People v. Walker
  California Supreme Court· 1991-12-05· cited 252×
• United States v. Steven W. Arnett
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-11-26· cited 223×
• United States v. Claude L. Blackwell
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-12-10· cited 218×
• Ralph Henry Cooper v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1979-03-05· cited 185×
• United States v. Donald Berry Burns, United States of America v. Joseph L. Laforney
  Fourth Circuit· 1993-03-19· cited 182×
• Anthony Correale v. United States
  First Circuit· 1973-06-06· cited 172×
• State v. Sledge
  Washington Supreme Court· 1997-12-11· cited 170×
• United States v. Charles William McHan United States of America v. Charles William McHan
  Fourth Circuit· 1996-12-04· cited 165×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1996-05-17· cited 140×
• United States v. James McQueen
  Fourth Circuit· 1997-03-06· cited 127×
• People v. Mancheno
  California Supreme Court· 1982-12-06· cited 126×
• United States v. John E. Irwin
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-03-26· cited 119×
• Thomas Palermo and Sheldon Saltzman v. Warden, Green Haven State Prison, and Russell Oswald
  Second Circuit· 1976-11-01· cited 115×
• United States v. Bankers Insurance Company
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-03-27· cited 115×
• State v. Horness
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1999-09-09· cited 100×
• State v. Brockman
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-05-21· cited 96×
• John William Dunn v. Raymond J. Colleran
  Third Circuit· 2001-04-20· cited 90×
• People v. Romero
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1987-11-09· cited 84×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Miller A. Dixon v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 1968-04-16· cited 61×
• United States v. Paiva
  District of Columbia· 1969-01-04· cited 41×