Dorsey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
567 U.S. 260 · 2012
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 district · 10 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 1 U.S.C. § 109 · 18 U.S.C. § 3282 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 991 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on United States v. Booker · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Kimbrough v. United States · William Marbury v. James Madison · Morton v. Mancari
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“factors to be considered in imposing a sentence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“post-Act sentencing of pre-Act offenders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.