United States v. Merrival’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 889 · 2008
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably United States v. Petreikis (2009), United States v. Kreitinger (2009)
13 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 · 18 U.S.C. § 3583
Relies on Gall v. United States · United States v. Cotton
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the same 'reasonableness' standard that applies to initial sentencing proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“under a deferential abuse-of-discretion standard.”
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.