United States v. Self’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.3d 1039 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably United States v. Hughes (2005), United States v. Hughes (2005)
18 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Virginia Eastern District Court)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Perdomo · United States v. Puckett · United States v. Uwaeme · United States v. Capers · United States v. Murray
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]section 3C1.1 draws no distinction between a federal investigation and a state investigation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“committed ... by the defendant ... during the commission of the offense of conviction ... or in the course of attempting to avoid detection or responsibility for that offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[I]nstant offense' in § 3C1.1 refers to the offense of conviction including relevant 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.