United States v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 205 · 1993
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 7206
Relies on Energy Cooperative, Inc. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Jones v. Farm Credit Administration · United States v. Johnson · United States v. Nowicki · United States v. Ford
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial judge's effort to choose an appropriate punishment [i]s a kind of bean-counting--as though if eleven convictions yields eight years, then six convictions must yield less than eight years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“arithmetic proportion has little to do with the calculus of sentencing.”
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.