United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
445 F.3d 1 · 2006
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 15 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Rita v. United States (2007), United States v. Martin (2008)
52 federal appellate · 15 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 United States v. Booker · Kashif v. United States · United States v. Moreland · United States v. Dean · United States v. Jiménez-Beltre
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he farther the judge's sentence departs from the guidelines sentence . . . the more compelling the justification based on factors in [the statute] that the judge must offer in order to enable the court of appeals to assess the reasonableness of the sentence imposed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“history and characteristics of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reliance on a discounted or excluded factor may, like the extent of the variance, have some bearing on reasonableness.” United States v. Smith, 445 F.3d 1, 5 (1st Cir. 2006). See also United States v. Davis, 458 F.3d 491, 498 (6th Cir.2006) (district court”
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.