United States v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
303 F.3d 539 · 2002
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Sanchez (2004), United States v. Shaw (2002)
6 federal appellate · 1 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. § 844
Relies on United States v. Olano · Johnson v. United States · United States v. Cotton · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Bain Jr
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n appellate court may correct an error not brought to the attention of the trial court if (1) there is an error (2) that is plain and (3) that affects substantial rights. If all three of these conditions are met, an appellate court may then exercise its discretion to notice a forfeited error, but only if (4) the error seriously affects the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court was under the mistaken impression that it lacked the authority to depart.”
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.