United States v. Velez’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 1035 · 1997
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2019
9 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1028 (Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on United States v. Buenrostro-Torres · United States v. Haddock · United States v. Cambra · United States v. Chatterji · United States v. Andersen
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the primary purpose of the offense involved the unlawful production, transfer, possession, or use of identification documents for the purpose of violating, or assisting another to violate, the laws relating to naturalization, citizenship, or legal resident status, apply § 2L2.1 or § 2L2.2, as appropriate, rather than § 2F1.1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Index is only an 'interpretive aid’ and that courts should apply the ‘most applicable guideline.’ ” Id. at 1037 . The Ninth Circuit explained that the district court should have applied § 2L2.1 because it more specifically addressed the defendant's offense conduct:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]y its very title . . . concerns false statements relating to naturalization and immigration”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.