United States v. Leandre’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.3d 796 · 1998
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably United States v. Simpson (2005), United States v. Valdez (2005)
19 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 18 U.S.C. § 17 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Olano · Koon v. United States · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Penry v. Lynaugh · Laws v. United Missouri Bank
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) has committed a non-violent offense, (2) while suffering from 'significantly reduced mental capacity,' (3) that was not caused by the voluntary use of [drugs or] other intoxicants, (4) where the defendant's mental incapacity 'contributed to the commission of the offense,' (5) so long as the defendant's criminal record does not indicate a need for imprisonment to protect public safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uch evidence of a difficult family situation that will arise upon [defendant's] incarceration is, unfortunately, no more extraordinary than that deemed by the Dyce court not to be sufficiently extraordinary for a departure”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“correctly understands [its] discretionary authority to depart downward when a particular mitigating circumstance exists, [but] make[s] a clearly erroneous factual finding that the circumstance does not exist,”
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.