United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.3d 839 · 1994
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably United States v. Green (2006), United States v. Moreland (2006)
20 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on United States v. Hummer · United States v. Adkins · United States v. Reyes · United States v. Richardson · United States v. Hays
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.
“[a]llowing individual district judges to decide what amount of drugs is small would undermine the consistency goal; what is small to one judge may not be so small to another.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) a de novo standard [of review] to determine whether the reasons the district court used to support its departure encompassed a factor “not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines,” (2) a clearly erroneous standard to review whether the district court had adequate factual support to depart on the basis of the factor, (3) an abuse of discretion standard to determine whether the factor is of sufficient importance to justify a sentence outside the guideline range, and (4) an abuse of discretion standard to review whether the extent of the departure was reasonable.”
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.