United States v. James’s Empirical Analysis
564 F.3d 1237 · 2009
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2020
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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. § 3663A (§ 204 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3664 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on BFP v. Resolution Trust Corporation · United States v. Boccagna · Ellis v. Emery · United States v. Gallant · United States v. Parker
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court may not order restitution in an amount that exceeds the actual 11 The record reflects that the defendant continued to make monthly restitution payments of thirty dollars at least through December, 2015. 22 loss caused by the defendant's conduct, which would amount to an illegal sentence constituting plain error”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) the greater of- (I) the value of the property on the date of the damage, loss, or destruction; or (II) the value of the property on the date of sentencing, less (ii) the value (as of the date the property is returned) of any part of the property that is returned.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sentencing court may resolve restitution uncertainties with a view towards achieving fairness to the victim, so long as it still makes a reasonable determination of appropriate restitution rooted in a calculation of actual loss .”
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.