United States v. Brownstein’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 121 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Scherl v. Fisher · Rauer v. United States · Soria v. United States · United States v. Reyes-Alvarado · Randolph Central School District v. Aldrich
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (b) the sentencing court may impose a sentence outside the range established by the applicable guideline, if the court finds "that there exists an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines that should result in a sentence different from that described.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“rests its decision not to depart on a determination that departure on a given ground is impermissible,”
1 later decision 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.