United States v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 365 · 1993
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Sanchez v. United States (1995), United States v. Basinger (1995)
14 federal appellate · 4 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. § 3231 · 18 U.S.C. § 3583 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Illinois v. Gates · Hill v. Lockhart · Mistretta v. United States · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was an organizer or leader of a criminal activity that involved five or more participants or was otherwise extensive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant should not receive a sentence longer than the one discussed at the plea hearing”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at sentencing because the sentencing court estimated the quantity of methamphetamine that could be made from the amount of phenylacetic acid purchased by Roberts. Roberts further argues that this”
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.