Buggs v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 439 · 1998
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Cepero (2000), Paul Schaff v. Donald Snyder (1999)
21 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Bailey v. United States · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Bousley v. United States · Hohn v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]rrors in the implementation of the Sentencing Guidelines are generally not cognizable in a collateral attack.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right,”
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.