United States v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 41 · 1994
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. Lombard (1995), United States v. Rostoff (1995)
32 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · Joseph v. United States · Roy v. Gravel · United States v. Diaz-Villafane · United States v. Rivera
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court should not infer from inexplicit Guidelines language, or from language that authorizes use of a particular factor as a basis for departure in some cases, an absolute barrier in principle against using certain other factors as grounds for departure in other unusual circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the criminal history category does not adequately reflect the seriousness of the defendant's past criminal conduct or the likelihood that the defendant will commit other crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“departure decisions reflect a determination of the purpose of, or an interpretation of the language in, a Guideline,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.