United States v. Lanterman’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 158 · 1996
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably United States v. Galbraith (2000), United States v. Acosta (1996)
28 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
Relies on Vaughan v. First National Bank of Shamrock · Pace v. Hurt · United States v. Beler · United States v. Coonce · United States v. Corral-Ibarra
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Provided that the facts contained in a PSR 'bear sufficient indicia of reliability to support their probable accuracy,' the district court may adopt them 'as support for its findings and conclusions' regarding the quantity of drugs attributable to a defendant.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A defendant ... has a due process right to be sentenced on the basis of reliable information .... 'To succeed on a challenge to a sentence, a defendant must show that information before the court was inaccurate, and that the court relied on it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“after reviewing the record, we are left with the firm and definite conviction that a mistake has been made.”
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.