United States v. Coe’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 405 · 1989
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Rusher (1992), United States v. Thai (1994)
87 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on Griffith v. Kentucky · Busic v. United States · United States v. Cervantes · United States v. Correa-Vargas · 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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[o]nly the most compelling circumstances--for example, prior misconduct accompanied by wanton cruelty,' would justify a 4A[1.3] departure above category VI.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'that there exists an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f reliable information indicates that the criminal history category does not adequately reflect the seriousness of the defendant's past criminal conduct or the likelihood that the defendant will commit other crimes, the court may consider imposing a sentence departing from the otherwise applicable guideline range.”
3 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.