United States v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
561 F.3d 81 · 2009
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2022
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 851 (§ 411 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Gall v. United States · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Williams v. United States · Cunningham v. California
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A felony conviction is, and ought to be, a profoundly significant event. Its importance goes well beyond its immediate consequences, such as punishment; sentencing decisions in every jurisdiction in the United States are driven in great measure by the criminal history of the defendant. Felony convictions should neither be imposed nor overturned lightly, and under no circumstances should they be treated like a Las Vegas marriage, to be annulled when they become burdensome or inconvenient. Vacating long-standing convictions for strategic purposes also serves to erode public confidence in the criminal justice system. If the process is perceived to be readily manipulable, or even dishonest, the damage to that confidence is likely to be substantial indeed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he district court stated that it would have imposed the same sentence as a non- Guideline sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a). If we find an alleged Guideline error would not have affected the district court's sentence, we may affirm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If we find an alleged Guideline error would not have affected the district court's sentence, we may affirm.”
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.