United States v. Eagle’s Empirical Analysis
553 F.3d 654 · 2009
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably United States v. Feemster (2009), United States v. Lazarski (2009)
28 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. § 113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Gall v. United States · United States v. Mashek · Stupakoff v. Otto (GmbH & Co. KG) · United States v. Perkins · United States v. Gray
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When contemplating and structuring such a departure, the district court should consider both the nature and extent of a defendant’s criminal history. In deciding the likelihood that a defendant may commit other crimes, a court may take into account any evidence of obvious incorrigibility and conclude that leniency has not been effective.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a ritualistic exercise in which [the sentencing court] mechanically discusses each criminal history category it rejects en route to the category that it selects.” United States v. Levi, 229 F.3d 677 , 679 (8th Cir.2000), quoting United States v. Day, 998 F.2d 622 , 625 (8th Cir.1993).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reliable information indicates that the defendant's criminal history category substantially under-represents the seriousness of the defendant's criminal history or the likelihood that the defendant will commit other crimes.”
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.