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901 F.3d 1196 · 2018

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
June 2025
most recently cited

1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1343 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 994

Relies on Gall v. United States · United States v. Martin · United States v. Levinson · United States v. Friedman · United States v. Stefonek

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “raise[d] concerns of sentencing disparities according to socio-economic status,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “mean length of imprisonment [for fraud offenders] is 39 months.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[T]he length of the sentence should reflect the harm done”
    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.