United States v. Sampson’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.3d 13 · 2007
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Basham (2009), United States v. Mangual-Garcia (2007)
30 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 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. § 2119 · 18 U.S.C. § 3510 · 18 U.S.C. § 3591 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 3592 · 18 U.S.C. § 3593 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 18 U.S.C. § 3595 (§ 60002 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 10607
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Gregg v. Georgia
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“individual rulings worked any cognizable harm”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]are statistical discrepancies are insufficient to prove a Fifth Amendment violation with respect to the implementation of a statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“all the aggravating . . . factors found to exist sufficiently outweigh all the mitigating . . . factors found to exist.”
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.