United States v. Okane’s Empirical Analysis
52 F.3d 828 · 1995
Citation profile
43 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably United States v. Collins (1997), United States v. Davis (1995)
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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Stinson v. United States · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Soberon v. United States · Williams v. United States · Granito v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[I]nstead of hypothesizing a criminal history range more than VI, the guidelines require a sentencing court to look to the other axis and consider the available ranges from higher offense levels.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to determine whether the district court properly identified the existence of appropriate circumstances warranting a departure.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'ascertain whether the circumstances cited by the district court to justify departure actually exist in the instant case.'”
4 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.