United States v. McClanahan’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 1146 · 1998
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably United States v. Staples (2000), United States v. Salinas (2004)
25 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.
Relationships
Relies on Stinson v. United States · Burns v. United States · United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan v. Leckie Smokeless Coal Co. · Hervey v. Shalala · United States v. Davis
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's revocation sentence is subject to review under the 'plainly unreasonable' standard because 'no guideline establishes a mandatory range of such a sentence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the nature and circumstances of the offense; the characteristics and the history of the defendant himself; the need for the sentence to reflect the serious ness of the offense and to promote respect for the law; the need to provide adequate deterrence and to protect the public from possible future criminal conduct by the defendant; and the kinds of sentences and the sentence range available based on the defendant’s conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a breach of the trust placed in a defendant by the original sentencing court.”
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.