United States v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
166 F.3d 723 · 1999
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2017
17 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 United States v. Olano · United States v. Calverley · United States v. Matovsky · United States v. Spires · United States v. Brewster
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 4A1.2(b) of the guidelines defines a sentence of imprisonment as a ‘sentence of incarceration.’ This suggests that physical confinement is a key distinction between sentences of imprisonment and other types of sentences. The guidelines make no distinction between offenders incarcerated primarily for rehabilitation and those incarcerated simply to remove the offender from society.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sentence of incarceration and refers to the maximum sentence imposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the purpose of boot camp is rehabilitation,” and”
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.