United States v. Sleight’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 1012 · 1987
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably United States v. Syme (2002), United States v. Rochester (1990)
47 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
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. § 3565 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1961
Relies on Stafford v. Oklahoma · Rodgers v. United States · Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc. · Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution v. Hill · Pierce v. 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]estitution may not be ordered in an amount that a defendant cannot realistically pay within the five year restitution period.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Id. 36 Although we recognized in Sleight that one purpose of restitution under the Probation Act is to make the victim whole, we also explained that restitution”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is imposed as a part of sentencing and remains inherently a criminal penalty”
3 later decisions 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.