United States v. Guerrero’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 261 · 1990
Citation profile
141 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably United States v. Cooper (2006), United States v. Durrive (1990)
141 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 991
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Pennsylvania v. Ritchie · Pelaes v. United States
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant who pleads guilty to a conspiracy charge is held accountable, for purposes of determining his relevant conduct and the applicable guideline range, for all drug transactions that he was aware of or that he should have reasonably foreseen.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'because of a claim that a particular sentence is draconian.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sentence within the correct guideline range that was not imposed in violation of the law must be affirmed.”
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.