Griffith v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.3d 1321 · 2017
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3582 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 844 (§ 404 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 856 (§ 416 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Rita v. United States · United States v. Cronic · Sells v. United States · Chapman v. United States
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prediction [of what will normally suffice] is not, however, a presumption.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“to show a reasonable probability that the district court would have imposed a different sentence under the correct range.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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