United States v. Mellen’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.3d 175 · 2004
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc. (2009), United States v. Easter (2009)
20 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Blakely v. Washington · Griffin v. California · United States v. Saro · United States v. Childress
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'that at least one overt act was committed in furtherance of the conspiracy.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where ... the relevant conduct issue involves not only a factual question, but the district court's application of the guidelines to the facts, the proper standard [of review] is due deference — one between clear error and de novo review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that, when faced with reason to suspect he is dealing in stolen property, the defendant consciously avoided learning that fact.”
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.