United States v. Ancheta’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.3d 1114 · 1994
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Arceo (1996), United States v. Sherwood (1996)
63 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on United States v. Dunnigan · Shaw v. Barr · Thompson v. Virginia · Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Gulf States Steel, Inc. v. LTV Corp.
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the defendant willfully obstructed or impeded, or attempted to obstruct or impede, the administration of justice during the investigation, prosecution, or sentencing of the instant offense, increase the offense level by 2 levels.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) false testimony, (2) on a material matter, (3) with willful intent.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a defendant objects to a sentence enhancement resulting from her trial testimony, a district court must review the evidence and make independent findings necessary to establish a willful impediment to, or obstruction of, justice, or an attempt to do the same, under the perjury definition we have set out.”
5 later decisions 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.