United States v. Tavano’s Empirical Analysis
12 F.3d 301 · 1993
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Gifford (1994), Dopp v. Pritzker (1994)
47 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Bifulco v. United States · Penn v. Parke State Bank · Johnson v. Brown · United States v. Ruiz
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court must take pains to base sentencing judgments upon reliable and accurate information.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a general rule, a trial court lawfully may make implicit findings with regard to sentencing matters, incorporating by reference suitably detailed suggestions limned in the PSI Report or advanced by a party.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]ue process demands that a sentencing court 'consider all the available evidence, including conflicting evidence' to 'assure itself that a piece of proof is sufficiently reliable.'”
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.