United States v. Cothran’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.3d 279 · 2002
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Betancourt (2005), United States v. Lucas (2008)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
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. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3563 · 18 U.S.C. § 3583 · 18 U.S.C. § 3663 · 18 U.S.C. § 3663A (§ 204 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3664
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Brady v. United States · United States v. Cotton · Blackledge v. Allison · United States v. Broce
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the plural word `victims' and reference to `other computer and delivery companies' [in the plea agreement] make plain that this agreement goes beyond”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here a fraudulent scheme is an element of the conviction, the court may award restitution for `actions pursuant to that scheme.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he bill of information is not our only source of information about the scope of the scheme.”
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.