In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.3d 1085 · 2008
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2020
9 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. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Taylor v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Kimbrough v. United States · James v. United States · Buford 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e apply the ACCA standard to determine whether an offense qualifies as a crime of violence under section 4B1.2”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“one [prior] felony conviction of either a crime of violence or a controlled substance 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.