United States v. Field’s Empirical Analysis
110 F.3d 587 · 1997
Citation profile
47 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably United States v. Sablan (1997), United States v. Padilla-Pena (1997)
47 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Koon v. United States · Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · United States v. McCarthy · United States v. Bieri
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] discretionary decision not to depart from the Guidelines is unreviewable on appeal absent an unconstitutional motive”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court's legally erroneous determination that it lacked authority to consider a particular mitigating factor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court finds that there exists an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines that should result in a sentence different from that described.”
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.