United States v. Belt’s Empirical Analysis
89 F.3d 710 · 1996
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably United States v. Fortier (1999), United States v. Bunner (1998)
37 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Koon v. United States · Yakus v. United States · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[U]nless the judge's language unambiguously states that the judge does not believe he has authority to downward depart, we will not review his decision.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Njotwithstanding any other provision of law, the court shall not suspend the sentence of, or grant a probationary sentence to, such person with respect to the conviction under section 922(g).”) with, e.g., 21 U.S.C. § 841 (b)(1)(A) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ajbsent the trial court’s clear misunderstanding of its discretion to depart, or its imposition of a sentence which violates the law or incorrectly applies the guidelines, we have no jurisdiction to review a refusal to depart.”
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.