United States v. Kent’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.3d 362 · 2016
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2025
4 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1349 (§ 902 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
Relies on United States v. Cavera · 135 S. Ct. 1378 - Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc. · United States v. Sabhnani · United States v. Jass · United States v. Chacko
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In assessing whether an organization is 'otherwise extensive,' all persons involved during the course of the entire offense are to be considered. Thus, a fraud that involved only three participants but used the unknowing services of many outsiders could be considered extensive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Beckles v. United States, ---- U.S. -----, 137 S. Ct. 886 , 894 (2017) (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted). - 10 - be deemed harmless, avoiding the need to vacate the sentence and to remand the case for resentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Government bears the burden of proving the facts supporting the application of a Guidelines provision, and it must do so by a preponderance of the evidence.”
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.