United States v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
8 F.3d 839 · 1993
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably United States v. Gaviria (1997), United States v. Thomas (1997)
43 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Williams v. United States · Miller v. Florida · Brewster v. Derwinski · Kashif v. United States · Murphy v. Sullivan
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]ental and emotional conditions are not ordinarily relevant”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“linked to one of the stated purposes of sentencing,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]y conforming the sentences of federal defendants in the District of Columbia to those imposed by the [local D.C.] Superior Court, the [federal] district court would pull federal defendants in the District of Columbia out of the nationwide net of the [U.S.] Sentencing 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.