United States v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
452 F.3d 998 · 2006
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2251 (Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on United States v. Booker · United States v. Haack · United States v. Dalton · United States v. Soldier · United States v. Hadash
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Affirming upward variances at a rate of 92.3% while affirming downward variances at a rate of 15.8% could hardly be viewed as uniform treatment, and seems contrary to 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a)(6)'s concern with eliminating unwarranted disparity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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