United States v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.3d 65 · 1998
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Waste Management Holdings, Inc. v. Mowbray (2000), Ruiz-Troche v. Pepsi Cola of Puerto Rico Bottling Co. (1998)
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 991
Relies on Koon v. United States · United States v. Rivera · United States v. Sitton · United States v. Aguilar-Pena · United States v. Haynes
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he fact that the national median for a broadly stated offense type may be above or below a particular defendant's [guideline sentencing range] cannot be used to justify a sentencing departure. Departures based on these kinds of perceived inequities `would contradict hopelessly the guidelines' structure and theory.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court finds that there exists an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines that should result in a sentence different from that described.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the region in which the defendant is convicted is likely to change the length of time served from approximately six months more if one is sentenced in the South to twelve months less if one is sentenced in Central California.”
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.