United States v. McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.3d 975 · 2008
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2025
15 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3584
Relies on United States v. Winston · United States v. Willis · United States v. Moore · United States v. Mathis · United States v. Shafer
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.
“the exercise of decision making authority, the nature of participation in the commission of the offense, the recruitment of accomplices, the claimed right to a larger share of the fruits of the crime, the degree of participation in planning or organizing the offense, the nature and scope of the illegal activity, and the degree of control and authority exercised over others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court's decision to impose a consecutive or concurrent sentence for reasonableness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“considered all the other statutory factors”
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.