United States v. Plumley’s Empirical Analysis
207 F.3d 1086 · 2000
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States of America Leon Howard Jr United States of America John Robinson (2000), United States v. Petersen (2002)
9 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Berger v. United States · United States v. Young · United States v. Dunnigan · Epps v. West · Hetzel v. Prince William County
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether an act or omission constitutes relevant conduct is a factual determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“into the gray zone between clearly acceptable and clearly unacceptable advocacy.”
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.