United States v. Chase’s Empirical Analysis
296 F.3d 247 · 2002
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022
15 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. § 3584 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Pinkerton v. United States · Bailey v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · Smith v. First Union National Bank
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f stacking for grouped offenses were prohibited, then two defendants guilty of multiple crimes might receive roughly the same sentence even though one was subject to a higher guideline range as a result of more harmful conduct or a more egregious criminal history.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the point within the guideline range designated by the district court as the appropriate term of imprisonment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a purely logical matter, there is no obstacle to stacking a defendant's sentences for grouped offenses.”
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.