United States v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 765 · 1989
Citation profile
69 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably United States v. Lara-Velasquez (1990), United States v. Osborne (1991)
69 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Mejia-Orosco · United States v. Lopez · United States v. Velasquez
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The method by which the district court chooses to address the requirements of Rule 32(c) and guideline 6A1.3(b) in a given case is for that court to select. As the guidelines direct, "[t]he sentencing court must determine the appropriate procedure in light of the nature of the dispute, its relevance to the sentencing determination, and applicable case law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“sentencing is to be based on the crime committed, not the offender.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.