United States v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 1052 · 1989
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably United States v. Smith (1991), United States v. Chaney (1992)
50 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Lord Electric Co. v. United States · Bearden v. Georgia · Johnson v. Righetti · Dorszynski v. United States · Lawrence 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a defendant's financial situation may well change in the future, making him able to pay some if not all the restitution ordered”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fully describing the financial resources of the defendant ... [and] the financial needs and earning ability of the defendant and the defendant's dependents,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]istrict courts are accorded broad discretion in ordering restitution.”
2 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.