United States v. Rich’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 582 · 1990
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2021
16 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. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · Kliewer v. New Jersey · United States v. Bermingham · United States v. Turner · United States v. Williams
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“deem[ed] it inadvisable to settle this Guidelines dispute, which would require us to interpret the Guidelines in a question the Sentencing Commission apparently has not yet considered.” Rich, 900 F.2d at 586 . We therefore, while calling this issue to the Commission's attention,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unclear from the present record whether the district judge would have imposed the same sentence under the lower Guidelines range,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.