United States v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 584 · 1996
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. LaBonte (1997), United States v. Branham (1996)
21 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Mistretta v. United States · Stinson v. United States · Smith v. United States · Ratzlaf et Ux 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Commission shall assure that the guidelines specify a sentence to a term of imprisonment at or near the maximum term authorized for categories of defendants in which the defendant is eighteen years old or older and [has been convicted of a felony that is either a violent crime or a specified controlled substance offense, and has at least two such prior convictions].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the maximum term of imprisonment authorized for the offense of conviction ... not including any increase in that maximum term under a sentencing enhancement provision that applies because of the defendant's prior criminal record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“which provides in pertinent part this qualification for that enhancement: 15 A defendant is a career offender if (1) the defendant was at least eighteen years old at the time of the instant offense, (2) the instant offense of conviction is a felony that is either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense, and (3) the defendant has at least two prior felony convictions of either a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense. 16 Amendment 506 to the Commentary to § 4B1.1 provides that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.