United States v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.3d 1008 · 1997
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably United States v. Pruitt (1998), United States of America v. David Stafford (2001)
17 federal appellate · 4 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Johnson v. United States · Jackson v. Internal Revenue Service · United States v. Saro · United States v. Childress · United States v. Burke
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he burden is on the government to prove facts in support of a sentence enhancement by a preponderance of the evidence,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) `error,' (2) that is `plain,' and (3) that `affect[s] substantial rights[ ]' . . . [and] (4) the error `seriously affect[s] the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“effectively create a duty for district court judges to ferret out, singlehandedly, every possible defect in fact or law in the presentence report.”
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.