United States v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
103 F.3d 596 · 1996
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably United States v. Portela (1999), United States v. Bonanno (1998)
25 federal appellate ·
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 Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · United States v. Tolson · United States v. Taylor · United States v. Gomez · United States v. Townsend
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n appellate court is ill-equipped to assess whether a particular defendant is motivated by genuine acceptance of responsibility or by a self-serving desire to minimize his own punishment. Unlike the district court judge, we do not enjoy a 'front row seat' from which to assess [the defendant's] statements and demeanor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he sentencing judge is in a unique position to evaluate a defendant's acceptance of responsibility,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assert and preserve issues that do not relate to factual guilt.”
3 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.