United States v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
81 F.3d 9 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably United States v. Pho (2006), United States v. Spears (2006)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 961 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on United States v. Pierro · United States v. Singleterry · Isabel v. United States · United States v. Havener · United States v. LaCroix
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] Sentencing Commission's recommendation to the Congress is not the kind of 'circumstance' that [ § 5K2.0] covers”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we cannot blind our eyes to the fact that the Congress shot down the Commission's recommendation [to eliminate the 100:1 ratio]”
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.