United States v. Hughey’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1256 · 1989
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Hughey v. United States (1990), United States v. Rochester (1990)
29 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1029 · 18 U.S.C. § 1709 · 18 U.S.C. § 3651 · 18 U.S.C. § 3663
Relies on Lord Electric Co. v. United States · United States v. Menasche · Sloan v. Hicks · United States v. Owens · 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the phrase ['involving the act' from section 3664(e) ] implies that the acts for which restitution may be ordered must be related to the offense of which the defendant is convicted, but that those acts may extend beyond the boundaries of the offense itself”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“VWPA permits a court to require restitution beyond that amount involved in the offense of conviction when there is a significant connection between the crime of conviction and similar actions justifying restitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“specified in the charge on which the defendant is convicted where the victim of that offense also suffered other losses as a result of the defendant's related course of conduct”
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.