United States v. Sablan’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 913 · 1997
Citation profile
79 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably United States v. Collins (1997), United States v. Sanchez-Rodriguez (1998)
79 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Koon v. United States · Solem v. Helm · Williams v. United States · Dorszynski v. United States · McKinney v. Baldwin
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here . . . a district court sets out findings justifying the magnitude of its decision to depart and the extent of departure from the Guidelines, and that explanation cannot be said to be unreasonable, the sentence imposed must be affirmed.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an aggravating ... circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A district court's decision to depart from the Guidelines ... will in most cases be due substantial deference, for it embodies the traditional exercise of discretion by a sentencing court.”
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.