United States v. Mejia-Orosco’s Empirical Analysis
868 F.2d 807 · 1989
Citation profile
139 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably United States v. Mejia-Orosco (1989), United States v. White (1989)
139 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. § 3742
Relies on United States v. Mejia-Orosco
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'vulnerability' is the sort of fact which the trial court is peculiarly well-positioned to gauge....”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accept the findings of fact of the district court unless they are clearly erroneous and shall give due deference to the district court's application of the guidelines to the facts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the defendant knew or should have known that a victim of the offense was unusually vulnerable due to age, physical or mental condition, or that a victim was otherwise particularly susceptible to the criminal conduct.”
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.