In re Sealed Case No. 97-3112’s Empirical Analysis
181 F.3d 128 · 1999
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Alegria (1999), United States v. Stewart (2010)
31 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
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 Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Santobello v. New York · United States v. Nixon · Koon v. United States · Stinson v. United States
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even where the government files no motion [under U.S.S.G. § 5K1.1], Koon authorizes district courts to depart from the Guidelines based on a defendant’s substantial assistance where circumstances take the case out of the relevant guideline heartland.” The D.C. Circuit subsequently reheard the case en banc and vacated in part the panel opinion, holding that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[In Wade,] the Supreme Court ruled that a district court has the authority to review the Government's failure to move for a downward departure only if the court finds that the refusal was based on an unconstitutional motive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Upon motion of the government stating that the defendant has provided substantial assistance in the investigation or prosecution of another person who has committed an offense, the court may depart from the guidelines.”
2 later decisions 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.