United States v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2014
4 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. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 3552 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on United States v. Gregorio · United States v. Restrepo
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that where, as here, an offense level has been extraordinarily magnified by a circumstance that bears little relation to the defendant’s role in the offense, a downward departure may be warranted on the ground that minimal participation exists to a degree not contemplated by the guidelines.”
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.