United States v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.3d 423 · 2005
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on United States v. Booker · Koon v. United States · United States v. Paladino · United States v. Mykytiuk · United States v. Dean
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]fter Booker what is at stake is the reasonableness of the sentence, not the correctness of the 'departures' as measured against pre- Booker decisions that cabined the discretion of sentencing courts to depart from guidelines that were then mandatory.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“How compelling [the] justification must be [to support a sentence varying from the Guidelines range] is proportional to the extent of the difference between the advisory range and the sentence imposed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“give further weight to a factor covered by a specific guidelines adjustment, especially where (as is true here) that ‘factor is present to an exceptional degree or in some other way makes the case different from the ordinary case where the factor is present.’ ”
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.