United States v. McCarty’s Empirical Analysis
82 F.3d 943 · 1996
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Hahn (2004), United States v. Myers (1997)
32 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3584 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Leon · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Brown v. Illinois · Delaware v. Fensterer · Griffin v. Wisconsin
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If ... the undischarged term of imprisonment resulted from offense(s) that have been fully taken into account in the determination of the offense level for the instant offense, the sentence for the instant offense shall be imposed to run concurrently to the undischarged term of imprisonment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[i]ncreasing a defendant's offense level by noting that a defendant used a firearm to commit a previous felony does not take into account the substantive aspects of the underlying felony any more than noting that the felony occurred in the afternoon, on a sunny day or in an urban area”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(Policy Statement) In any other case, the sentence for the instant offense shall be imposed to run concurrently, partially concurrently, or consecutively to the prior undischarged term of imprisonment to the extent necessary to achieve a reasonable punishment for the instant offense.”
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.