United States v. Fiore’s Empirical Analysis
178 F.3d 917 · 1999
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably United States v. Griffin (1999), United States v. Johnson (2000)
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. § 1512
Relies on United States v. Moore · United States v. DePriest · United States v. Wenger · United States v. Emerson · United States v. Wilson
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.
“A defendant may not withdraw from portions of a plea agreement; he may sometimes withdraw from the plea agreement in its entirety and go to trial or he must abide by the plea agreement in its entirety. It is inappropriate to take a blue pencil to the agreement, removing the provisions that in retrospect the defendant wishes were not there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e cannot review a district court's discretionary refusal to depart from the sentencing range recommended by the guidelines unless that refusal was based on the court's erroneous belief that it had no power to make the requested departure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we give almost absolute deference to a court's credibility determinations because the court had the opportunity to hear the witness's testimony firsthand”
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.