United States v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.3d 144 · 1995
Citation profile
74 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably United States v. Moore (2000), United States v. Stewart (2002)
74 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. § 3742
Relies on Payless Wholesale Distributor, Inc. v. Albert Culver (P.R.) Inc. · United States v. Garcia-Garcia · United States v. Davis · United States v. Georgiadis
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reluctant to 'treat as ambiguous' a ruling which does not affirmatively state that the judge knew he could depart downward but failed to do so.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to state affirmatively that he knows he possesses the power to make a downward departure, but declines to do so.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it should be assumed 'that the court, in the exercise of its discretion, found downward departure unwarranted.'”
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.