United States v. Guy’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.3d 859 · 1999
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably United States v. Holm (2003), United States v. Meléndez-Santana (2003)
29 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. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 3563 · 18 U.S.C. § 3583
Relies on United States v. Canoy · United States v. Bonanno · United States v. Wallace · United States v. Elwell · United States v. Madoch
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This language is hortatory, rather than obligatory, and vests the district court with wide decisional latitude. If Congress wanted to grant low-risk defendants automatic exemptions from drug testing, it could have written § 3563(a)(5) to read that the testing requirement “shall” or “must” be “ameliorated or suspended” if the defendant is a low risk for future substance abuse. It did not, however....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'is not only a clear error but an error [so great] . . . that failure to correct it could result in a miscarriage of justice.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`random drug tests as ordered by the Probation Office, not to exceed 104 tests per year'”
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.