United States v. Sheffer’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 842 · 1990
Citation profile
128 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably United States v. Bayerle (1990), United States v. Brooks (1992)
128 federal appellate · 2 district · 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miller v. Florida · Delaware v. New York · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County · Porzig v. Nolden · Wrenn v. Ohio Department of Mental Health
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the defendant was a manager or supervisor (but not an organizer or leader) and the criminal activity involved five or more participants or was otherwise extensive....”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the application of the Guidelines to an ongoing conspiracy does not in any way violate the ex post facto clause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that there exists an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines that should result in a sentence different from that described.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. United States v. Leroy J. Stokes, United States of America v. Tammy Shawon Chalmers · United States v. Brenda Taliaferro, United States of America v. Isabel Martinez, United States of America v. Linda Taliaferro, United States of America v. Patricia Beckford, A/K/A Annette, A/K/A Pat, A/K/A Trish, United States of America v. Kenneth Brown, A/K/A Kent
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.