United States v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 759 · 1994
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. Lloyd (1995), United States v. Morgano (1994)
24 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
Relies on National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Pledger v. Medlock · Perry v. Louisiana · United States v. Durrive · United States v. Santiago
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he base offense level prescribed by the guidelines for a particular crime presumably reflects, or `includes,' those characteristics considered by Congress to inhere in the crime at issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a witness may not be impeached by contradiction as to collateral or irrelevant matters elicited on cross-examination.”
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.