United States v. Demers’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 1381 · 1994
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez De Varon (1999), United States v. Cantrell (2006)
35 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. § 3231 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Calder v. Job · Clampitt v. Interinsurance Exchange · United States v. Wing Fook Lui · United States v. Blaize · United States v. Lillard
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant has received a lower offense level by virtue of being convicted of an offense significantly less serious than warranted by his actual criminal conduct.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining whether a defendant was a minimal or a minor participant in any criminal activity, a district court sentencing a defendant . . . shall consider all conduct within the scope of 1B1.3 (Relevant Conduct), not just conduct cited in the count of conviction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“applies where the district court determines as a factual matter that the defendant has benefitted by virtue of the relative seriousness of his offense of conviction compared to his actual criminal conduct.”
2 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.