United States v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 71 · 1994
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably United States v. Covarrubias (1995), United States v. Bradford (1996)
22 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Brown · United States v. Adkins · United States v. Beckham · United States v. Shoupe
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“criminal history category significantly over-represents the seriousness of the defendant's criminal history or the likelihood that defendant will commit further crimes. * * * The court may conclude that the defendant's criminal history was significantly less serious than that of most defendants in the same criminal history category (Category II), and therefore consider a downward departure from the guidelines.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“remanded [the cause] to the trial court for it to determine whether a downward departure is appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause a sentencing court is not obligated to state its reasons for refusing to depart from a sentence within the Guideline range, this Court would ordinarily assume that the district court's failure to utilize a Guideline provision available to it, indicated that it had considered and rejected its application.”
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.