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United States v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis

376 F.3d 1160 · 2004

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 2015
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Koon v. United States · Dobbert v. Florida · Collins v. Youngblood · Williams 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a set of typical cases embodying the conduct that each guideline describes. When a court finds an atypical case, one to which a particular guideline linguistically applies but where conduct significantly differs from the norm, the court may consider whether a departure is warranted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Employment record is not ordinarily relevant in determining whether a sentence should be outside the applicable guideline range.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “with immediate effect, and without constitutional disability, to appellate proceedings after April 30, 2003.”
    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.