United States v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
890 F.2d 69 · 1989
Citation profile
44 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1503 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. LTV Corp. · California Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Guerra · Rath Packing Co. Creditors' Trust v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · United States v. Roberson
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant willfully impeded or obstructed, or attempted to impede or obstruct the administration of justice during the investigation or prosecution of the instant offense, increase the offense level by 2 levels.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 3C1.1 also encompasses 'attempted' which we construe as not requiring success in actual obstruction”
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.