United States v. Bolden’s Empirical Analysis
889 F.2d 1336 · 1989
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably United States v. Rivera (1993), United States v. Jones (1994)
41 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1014 · 18 U.S.C. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on United States v. Daughtrey · United States v. Diaz-Villafane · United States v. Ryan · United States v. Otero · United States v. Uca
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e do not think that the economic desirability of attempting to preserve [defendant's] job so as to enable him to make restitution warrants a downward adjustment from the guidelines”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“guidelines mandate that downward adjustments are appropriate only in the unusual case”
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.