United States v. Gomer’s Empirical Analysis
764 F.2d 1221 · 1985
Citation profile
53 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably United States v. Fountain (1985), United States v. Bruchey (1987)
53 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. § 3651
Relies on United States v. Young · Gardner v. Florida · Townsend v. Burke · United States v. Ward · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the amount of the loss sustained by any victim as a result of the offense, the financial resources of the defendant, the financial needs and earning ability of the defendant and the defendant's dependents, and such other factors as the court deems appropriate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) that the judge explicitly repudiated the mandatory factor, or (2) that it was not improbable that the judge failed to consider the mandatory factor and was influenced thereby.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he VWPA does not necessarily require full satisfaction of the defendant's obligation to his dependents before awarding any sum to the victims.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.