United States v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 856 · 1990
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably United States v. Uwaeme (1992), United States v. Thomas (1991)
47 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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such sentence shall be imposed in accordance with the Guidelines and Policy Statements issued by the Sentencing Commission ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once any factor is in dispute, under § 6A1.3, both parties are to be given adequate opportunity to present information regarding that factor. Rigney put the amount of cocaine involved in dispute by challenging the conclusion of the pre-sentencing report.... At that point, both the government and Rigney were free to present to the district court information concerning the amount of cocaine involved....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the authority of a district court to depart from the Guidelines following a motion by the government under Sec. 3553(e) ... is not limited so that a finite sentence must be imposed, rather probation is authorized.”
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.