United States v. Spikes’s Empirical Analysis
543 F.3d 1021 · 2008
Citation profile
24 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. Tavares (2013), United States v. Henson (2008)
24 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 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Gall v. United States · United States v. Mashek · New Jersey v. Delaware · United States v. Phelps · United States v. Bah
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] failure to properly calculate the advisory Guidelines range is a significant procedural error. ...”
2 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.