United States v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.3d 747 · 1996
Citation profile
70 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably United States v. Acosta (1996), United States v. Griffin (1999)
70 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Yagow v. United States · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Love v. United States · United States v. Duarte
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the investigation or prosecution of his own misconduct by ... (1) timely providing complete information to the government concerning his own involvement in the offense; or (2) timely notifying authorities of his intention to enter a plea of guilty....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant who falsely denies, or frivolously contests, relevant conduct that the court determines to be true has acted in a manner inconsistent with acceptance of responsibility”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a defendant demonstrates that he is qualified for the [acceptance of responsibility] decrease, the guideline orders the decrease.”
4 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.