United States v. Irabor’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 554 · 1990
Citation profile
90 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States v. Lara (1990), United States v. Thompson (1996)
90 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. § 1344 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on United States v. Daughtrey · United States v. Thomas · United States v. Taylor · United States v. Velasquez
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tore up and discarded his bank records and false identification papers. He also falsely identified himself on two occasions to authorities who were investigating the crimes for which he was ultimately charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court's determination in this regard should not be disturbed unless it is without foundation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“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.”
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.