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United States v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis

428 F.3d 312 · 2005

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
July 2024
most recently cited

30 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably United States v. Fernandez (2006), United States v. Gale (2006)

30 federal appellate · 1 district ·

280200520102020decided

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. Booker · Chapman v. State of California · Blakely v. Washington · United States v. Crosby · United States v. Garcia-Garcia

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]e ordinarily presume a district court imposing an alternative non-guidelines sentence took into account all the factors listed in § 3553(a) and accorded them the appropriate significance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “additional mitigating evidence specifically for the court's use in determining his non-guidelines sentence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “would have been relevant, of course, to the court's analysis under § 3553(a),”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.