United States v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
7 F.3d 285 · 1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2020
4 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. § 1708 · 18 U.S.C. § 2114 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Williams v. United States · Yagow v. United States · United States v. Kim · United States v. Rodriguez · United States v. Palta
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a weapon or dangerous instrumentality was used or possessed in the commission of the offense the court may increase the sentence above the authorized guideline range.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“during the commission of the offense of conviction,”
2 later decisions 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.