United States v. Quintero’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 885 · 1994
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably United States v. Shumway (1997), United States v. Yates (2006)
26 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 18 U.S.C. § 1112 · 18 U.S.C. § 3509 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Beck v. Alabama · Schmuck v. United States · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to facilitate appellate review, the district court must explain in detail the reasons behind the imposition of a particular sentence, analogizing to other Guidelines provisions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, escape, murder, kidnapping, treason, espionage, sabotage, aggravated sexual abuse or sexual abuse, child abuse, burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated as part of a pattern or practice of assault or torture against a child or children; or perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree. Any other murder is murder in the second degree.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant arguing voluntary manslaughter 'attempts to negate the malice element by claiming, in essence, that she was not acting maliciously because some extreme provocation ... severely impaired her capacity for self-control in committing the killing.'”
2 later decisions 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.