United States v. Stapleton’s Empirical Analysis
316 F.3d 754 · 2003
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021
10 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
Relies on Scott v. Illinois · Sutton v. United States · Johnson v. Brown · Johnson v. Brown · Vidrio-Aleman v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our prior opinion, we did not decide any issues relating to obstruction of justice, and we did not establish any restrictions preventing the district court from considering obstruction of justice. Stapleton’s obstructive conduct at resentencing was simply not an issue in the prior appeal because he had not yet committed it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all issues decided by the appellate court become the law of the case, and the sentencing court is bound to proceed within the scope of any limitations imposed ... by the appellate court.”
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.