United States v. Rowland’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.2d 621 · 1990
Citation profile
29 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably United States v. Garrison (1998), United States v. Smith (1990)
29 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. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Delaware v. New York · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County · United States v. White · United States v. Gonzalez · United States v. Roberts
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be reasonably supported by probative evidence”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“including the defendant's ability to pay the fine imposed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.