United States v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.3d 1274 · 1994
Citation profile
32 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably United States v. Shannon (1996), United States v. Banks (1996)
32 federal appellate ·
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. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 860 (§ 419 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Goodwin · Yagow v. United States · Insurance Co. of North America v. United States Department of Labor · Ayrs v. Yanik · United States v. Kikumura
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that simply a preponderance of the evidence is all that is required for a factual finding tinder the Sentencing Guidelines.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any argument that the trial judge should have disbelieved a certain witness is doomed at the outset.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a factual finding will result in a sentencing increase so great 'that the sentencing hearing can fairly be characterized as a tail which wags the dog of the substantive offense.'”
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.