United States v. Messer’s Empirical Analysis
785 F.2d 832 · 1986
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably United States v. Yarbrough (1988), United States v. Fernandez-Angulo (1990)
104 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
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. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Figueroa v. United States · Farrow v. United States
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant challenging information used in sentencing must show such information is (1) false or unreliable, and (2) demonstrably made the basis for the sentence.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a trial judge relies on materially false or unreliable information in sentencing, the defendant's due process rights are violated.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is ordinarily not reviewable unless there exist constitutional concerns.”
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.