United States v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.3d 481 · 2007
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2022
6 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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 991 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on United States v. Booker · United States v. Williams · United States v. Davis · United States v. Snyder · United States v. Borho
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite being categorized in our cases under the substantive reasonableness prong, consideration of an impermissible factor-it seems to us-more appropriately involves the procedural reasonableness prong ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is clear that a sentence based on an improper factor fails to achieve the purposes of § 3553(a) and may be unreasonable regardless of length.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“However, whether it is categorized as being procedural, substantive, or a combination of the two,”
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.