United States v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
106 F.3d 1498 · 1997
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Sablan (1997), United States v. Whiteskunk (1998)
23 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Koon v. United States · Liteky et al United States · United States v. Rivera · In re Vey · United States v. Cooley
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when [it] believes the district court would not have reached the same sentence in the absence of the error”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Court should move incrementally down the sentencing table to the next higher offense level in criminal history category VI until it finds a guideline range appropriate to the case. USSG § 4A1.3, Policy Statement. If the sentencing table for criminal history were extended as presently structured, the criminal history score of 24 would be a level IX, or three (3) levels higher. Accordingly, the court should increase the defendant’s offense level by three (3) levels.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f reliable information indicates that the criminal history category does not adequately reflect the seriousness of the defendant's past criminal conduct or the likelihood that the defendant will commit other crimes.”
1 later decision 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.