United States v. Phinazee’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.3d 511 · 2008
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Martin (2008), United States v. Abu Ali (2008)
20 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. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on United States v. Booker · Gall v. United States · Blakely v. Washington · Rita v. United States · Lockett v. Ohio
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A sentence may be procedurally unreasonable if the district court “did not appreciate the non-mandatory nature of the guidelines, did not correctly calculate the sentencing range under the guidelines, or did not consider the § 3553(a) factors.” (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is that appellate courts must respect the role of district courts and stop substituting their judgment for that of those courts on the front line”). 3 . As the Supreme Court observed in Gall, the sentencing court”
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.