United States v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.3d 552 · 2006
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Stoterau (2008), United States v. Kappes (2015)
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3583 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Rochin v. People of California · Kastigar v. United States · Washington v. Harper · Winston v. Lee
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the nature and circumstances of the offense and the history and characteristics of the defendant; (2) the need for the sentence imposed (B) to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct; (C) to protect the public from further crimes of the defendant; and (D) to provide the defendant with needed educational or vocational training, medical care, or other correctional treatment in the most effective manner[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As directed by the Probation Officer, the defendant shall pay all or part of the costs of treating the defendant’s psychological or psychiatric disorder and/or sex offender treatment to the aftercare contractor during the period of community supervision, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3672 . The defendant shall provide payment and proof of payment as directed by the Probation Officer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A supervised release condition is substantively unreasonable if it 'is not reasonably related to the goal[s] of deterrence, protection of the public, or rehabilitation of the offender,' or if it infringes more on the offender's liberty than is 'reasonably necessary' to accomplish these statutory goals.”
2 later decisions 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.