United States v. Pighetti’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 3 · 1990
Citation profile
81 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably United States v. Rivera (1993), United States v. Ruiz (1990)
81 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. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Nicholas v. United States · Dorszynski v. United States · Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund v. Presti · United States v. Diaz-Villafane
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have no jurisdiction to review the extent of a downward departure merely because the affected defendant is dissatisfied with the quantification of the district court's generosity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the extent of a departure, like the decision to depart itself, is essentially discretionary, ... and the statute affords no grounds for the beneficiary of a departure decision to complain that the deviation should have been greater”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“squarely and recently, that a sentencing court's decision not to depart from the guidelines is unappealable.”
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.