United States v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
895 F.2d 932 · 1990
Citation profile
226 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 354 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez De Varon (1999), United States v. Aichele (1991)
226 federal appellate · 3 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. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst · Simmons v. United States · Florida v. Royer
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 354 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e believe the approach taken by the Second and Fifth Circuits is correct and hold that in order for section 3E1.1 of the guidelines to apply, a defendant must first accept responsibility for all of his criminal conduct.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court found that Gordon had done nothing to indicate his acceptance of responsibility. Indeed, Gordon's claim that he was entitled to this mitigating factor while at the same time denying the criminal conduct for which he was convicted by a jury borders on the frivolous.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant is not penalized for failing to accept responsibility. Rather, acceptance of responsibility is a mitigating factor available under appropriate circumstances.”
6 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.