United States v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
71 F.3d 232 · 1995
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States v. Vivit (2000), United States v. Moncivais (2007)
23 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. § 1028 (Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 42 U.S.C. § 408 (§ 208 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Luster v. Cushman · Silverman v. United States · United States v. Silverman · United States v. Carroll · United States v. Eschweiler
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n resolving any dispute concerning a factor important to the sentencing determination, the court may consider relevant information without regard to its admissibility under the rules of evidence applicable at trial, provided that the information has sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] defendant's statements regarding his motivation are relevant in that they shed light on the sincerity of an asserted acceptance of responsibility”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this court has set a relatively low hurdle”
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.