United States v. Royer’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.2d 28 · 1990
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Morillo (1993), United States v. Unger (1990)
108 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. § 3742
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · United States v. Diaz-Villafane · United States v. Wright · United States v. Harris
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether a defendant 'clearly demonstrates a recognition and affirmative acceptance of personal responsibility' is a fact-dominated issue, and the district court's decision to withhold a reduction in the offense level will not be overturned unless clearly erroneous.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the court had a plausible basis for arriving at the conclusion, no more was required.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“necessitates candor and authentic remorse not merely a pat recital of the vocabulary of contrition.”
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.