United States v. Hover’s Empirical Analysis
293 F.3d 930 · 2002
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2021
9 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. § 472 · 18 U.S.C. § 473
Relies on United States v. Dunnigan · United States v. Webber · United States v. Raleigh
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here's no reason to repeat what the government just said and [the prosecutor] just said because that's exactly what the transcript reflects. Clearly greatly at odds with all the evidence in this case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) the defendant willfully obstructed or impeded, or attempted to obstruct or impede, the administration of justice during the course of the investigation, prosecution, or sentencing of the instant offense of conviction, and (B) the obstructive conduct related to (i) the defendant’s offense of conviction ...; or (ii) a closely related offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Legal conclusions regarding application of the United States Sentencing Guidelines are reviewed de novo.”
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.