United States v. Sammoury’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 1341 · 1996
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably United States v. Gaviria (1997), United States v. Thomas (1997)
35 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on Williams v. United States · Sowashee Venture v. EB, Inc. · Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona · Voinovich v. Quilter · Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund v. Presti
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the judge correctly understood the Sentencing Guidelines and the evidence, knew he could depart, and yet decided to stick to the guideline range, there has been no incorrect application of the Guidelines ... and so the resulting sentence cannot be set aside.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accept the findings of fact of the district court [on sentencing matters] unless they are clearly erroneous.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]urely legal questions are reviewed de novo; factual findings are to be affirmed unless `clearly erroneous'; and we are to give `due deference' to the district court's application of the guidelines to facts.”
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.