United States v. Sweesy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate ·

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Qjudges should take into account that many guideline drug sentences are often heavier than is warranted by the nature of the crime. This is where a district judge’s discretion becomes important and where the judge often should take advantage of the provisions that permit reducing sentences under the guidelines.”); United States v. Jones, 145 F.3d 959, 966 (8th Cir. 1998) (Bright, J., dissenting in part and concurring in part) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 223 F. Supp. 2d 1016 - United States v. Flores