United States v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 854 · 2005
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Booker · United States v. Mykytiuk · United States v. Dean · United States v. George
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he role of this court is not to choose between possible sentences, but rather to review the reasonableness of the sentence imposed by the district court.”
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.