United States v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 179 · 1996
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2010
16 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
Relies on Helvering v. Gowran · United States v. Haines · United States v. Ross · United States v. Thomas · United States v. Phipps
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Two points are added if the defendant committed any part of the instant offense (i.e., any relevant conduct) less than two years following release from confinement on a sentence counted under § 4A1.1(a) or (b). This also applies if the defendant committed the instant offense while in imprisonment or escape status on such a sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a sentencing court has incorrectly applied the Guidelines by 'double counting' is a question of law that we review de novo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“identical conduct is described in two different ways so that two different [sentencing] adjustments apply.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.