United States v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
27 F.3d 378 · 1994
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Lessner (2007), United States v. Hawley (1996)
72 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Brewster v. Derwinski · Conway v. Statesman Mortgage Co. · DiCarlantonio v. United States · Anderson v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · United States v. Gonzalez
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ases in which obstruction is not inconsistent with an acceptance of responsibility arise when a defendant ... abandons all attempts to obstruct justice”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ordinarily indicates that the defendant has not accepted responsibility for his criminal conduct.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he timeliness of a defendant's decision to plead guilty will necessarily depend on the extent of trial preparation already undertaken prior to the plea and the decision's proximity in time to the trial date.”
9 later decisions 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.