United States v. Speed’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.3d 643 · 1995
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably United States v. Hedgepeth (2005), United States v. Olfano (2007)
16 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. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Morris v. Slappy · Kashif v. United States · Sisson v. Ruby · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. American Train Dispatchers Ass'n · Kashif 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, to the extent that the Drown court took the position in a footnote that a sentencing court could take pre-sen-tencing assistance into account on a Rule 35(b) motion, the holding is not a model of clarity. The footnote not only lacks any citation to cases or Rule 35(b) to support its position, but also appears to have been dictum. Accordingly, after considering the footnote in Drown , we remain constrained by our precedent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disinclination to agree with Judge Ellis's reliance on United States v. Drown, 942 F.2d 55 (1st Cir.1991), for the proposition that the First Circuit has explicitly recognized that a court may consider the full extent of a defendant's assistance in ruling on a Rule 35(b) motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court, on motion of the Government made within one year after the imposition of the sentence, may reduce a sentence to reflect a defendant's subsequent, substantial assistance in the investigation or prosecution of another person who has committed an offense....”
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.