United States v. Kapitzke’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.3d 820 · 1997
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably United States v. Stoterau (2008), United States v. Lazenby (2006)
60 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Koon v. United States · United States v. Lara · United States v. Canoy · United States v. Sally · United States v. Rybicki
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exceptional enough to be atypical of cases in which the acceptance of responsibility reduction is usually granted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fact-based judgment call that falls within the district court's sentencing discretion”
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.