United States v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 13 · 1997
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. Newman (1998), United States v. Bollin (2001)
46 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 2248 (§ 40113 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 3663 · 18 U.S.C. § 3664
Relies on Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Lynce v. Mathis · Swint v. Chambers County Commission · 116 S. Ct. 696 - United States v. Reorganized CF & I Fabricators of Utah, Inc.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because improperly ordered restitution constitutes an illegal sentence amounting to plain error.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the amount of the loss sustained by any victim as a result of the offense, the financial resources of the defendant, the financial needs and earning ability of the defendant and the defendant's dependents, and such other factors as the court deems appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the district court need not set forth detailed findings, [we] will vacate a restitution order if the record does not reflect that the court considered these mandatory factors.”
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.