United States v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 1083 · 1990
Citation profile
94 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Sarno (1995), United States v. Hicks (1991)
94 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.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1029 · 18 U.S.C. § 1503
Relies on California Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Guerra · United States v. Sanchez-Lopez · Davis v. Florida · United States v. Monaco
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under such circumstances, where a formal evidentiary hearing would have served no purpose, the court's denial of [defendant's] motion for such a hearing could not have constituted an abuse of discretion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“misrepresentations may not have actually misled the court ... [they] had the potential for obstructing justice and were therefore material for purposes of Sentencing Guidelines § 3C1.1”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on its face encompasses 'attempted' obstruction of justice as well as actual obstruction.”
4 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.