United States v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
24 F.3d 829 · 1994
Citation profile
41 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably United States v. Barajas-Nunez (1996), United States v. Koeberlein (1998)
41 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · Burns v. United States · Joseph v. United States · Department of Revenue of Montana v. Ranch · United States v. Diaz-Villafane
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the reasons for the imposition of the particular sentence as stated by the district court.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]either the Guidelines nor the law of this circuit require the district court to provide a mechanistic recitation of its rejection of intervening, lower guidelines ranges.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonableness is a flexible standard which 'involves what is quintessentially a judgment call'”
3 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.