United States v. Leake’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 550 · 1990
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably Williams v. United States (1992), United States v. Rusher (1992)
31 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. § 13 (Assimilative Crimes Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3013 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Kliewer v. New Jersey · Williams v. United States · United States v. Eichman · United States v. Munoz-Flores · United States v. Binder
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a court finds that a sentence imposed outside [the relevant] time period is evidence of similar, or serious dissimilar, criminal conduct, the court may consider this information in determining whether an upward departure is warranted under Sec. 4A1.3 (Adequacy of Criminal History Category).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Those offenses have nothing in common with the offenses involved here, and it was error for the [district court] to consider them in deciding to [depart upward].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“within the minimum and maximum terms established by state law.”
2 later decisions 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.