United States v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
49 F.3d 895 · 1995
Citation profile
43 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Zagari (1997), United States v. Khedr (2003)
43 federal appellate ·
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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on FMC Corp. v. Holliday · Baumgart v. Fairchild Aircraft Corp. · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Etlin v. Etlin · Perez v. Jones
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For an obstruction of justice to be found, a court must establish that the defendant had the specific intent to obstruct justice.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to impose a § 3C1.1 obstruction of justice enhancement on a defendant who has raised an issue as to his state of mind concerning the conduct alleged to have obstructed or impeded the administration of justice, the court must make a 'specific finding of intent.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the sentencing judge neither clearly resolves the disputed issue nor explicitly relies on factual assertions made in a PSR, we must remand for further findings.”
3 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.