United States v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.3d 606 · 2006
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Booker · Williams v. Taylor · Koon v. United States · Woodford v. Visciotti · United States v. Fernandez
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Two things are critical now: first, whether the district court’s choice of sentence is adequately reasoned in light of the § 3553(a) factors ...; and second, whether the sentence can ultimately be deemed a reasonable one.... At each point, the focus is on what the district court did, not on what it might have done. Thus, the procedural inquiry focuses on the actual reasons given, not on whether the sentence could have been supported by a different rationale; the substantive inquiry looks at the sentence imposed, not at all the other hypothetical sentences that might have been chosen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he defendant must be given the opportunity to draw the judge’s attention to any factor listed in section 3553(a) that might warrant a sentence different from the guidelines sentence for it is possible for such a sentence to be reasonable and thus within the sentencing judge’s discretion under the new regime ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The district court acknowledged that it was giving [the defendant] a significant break — a `World Series' break, in fact. Such a break requires, we hold, a `World Series' explanation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.