United States v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.3d 269 · 2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Iglesias (2008), United States v. Fumo (2011)
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3582 · 18 U.S.C. § 3583 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on United States v. Booker · United States v. Olano · United States v. Cooper · United States v. Vampire Nation · United States v. Williams
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.
“What a court can not do is to impose or lengthen a term of imprisonment for the purpose of providing correction and rehabilitation. As in all appeals, the burden is on the appellant to demonstrate that the District Court imposed a prison term or lengthened the term of imprisonment because of such considerations. The mere fact that a court may take into account or mention correction or rehabilitation along with other factors in arriving at or explaining its sentence is not enough, by itself, to meet this burden.”
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.