United States v. Yell’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 581 · 1994
Citation profile
32 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably United States v. Reed Raymond Prior (1997), 107 F.3d -930 - United States v. Prior (1997)
32 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 Crisp v. Rubin · Colonial Village, Inc. v. Spann · Yamamoto v. United States · Murphy v. Sullivan · In re Miller
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is a factual question which depends largely on credibility assessments by the sentencing court,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“spurious and without credible foundation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[bjeeause the district court was accurately apprised of the amount of cocaine involved at the time of its sentencing determination, we cannot say that the comment to the probation officer was materially false as required for a sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3C1.1, application note 3. We conclude the district court erred in enhancing appellant’s sentence for obstruction of justice.”
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.