United States v. Doss’s Empirical Analysis
79 F.3d 76 · 1996
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Salinas (2004), United States v. McClanahan (1998)
22 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. § 3583 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on United States v. Vega · United States v. Hill · United States v. Webb · United States v. Gabay · United States v. McGee
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considered the policy statements and then articulated his concerns about [the defendant] and the need to imprison him for a longer period than set out in the policy statement. On the basis of this record, that conclusion is not even close to being plainly unreasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he policy statement set out in section 7B1.4(a) is entitled to great weight. It is an element in the exercise of a judge's discretion in sentencing. It would be an abuse of his discretion to ignore it. But it doesn't have to be followed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“as a starting point, and in the exercise of discretion, knowing the policy statement was not binding, [the court] determined a proper sentence.”
1 later decision 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.