United States v. Pardue’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.3d 429 · 1994
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Neal v. United States (1996), United States v. Whitebird (1995)
37 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. § 3582 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Chapman v. United States · United States v. Shaw · United States v. Miller · United States v. Boot
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]in the case of a defendant who has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment based on a sentencing range that has subsequently been lowered by the Sentencing Commission ... the court may reduce the term of imprisonment, after considering the factors set forth in section 3553(a) to the extent that they are applicable, if such a reduction is consistent with applicable policy statements issued by the Sentencing Commission.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“treat each dose of LSD on the carrier medium as equal to 0.4 mg of LSD for the purposes of the Drug Quantity Table.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the applicability of 'mixture or substance’ for the purpose of applying any mandatory minimum sentence”); United States v. Boot, 25 F.3d 52 , 55 (1st Cir.1994) (stating that”
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.