United States v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 56 · 1990
Citation profile
131 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez De Varon (1999), United States v. Sanchez (1991)
131 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
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · Jones v. Barnes · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · Rosenberg v. Comerica Bank
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“less culpable than most other participants”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a decision must strike [the court] as more than just maybe or probably wrong; it must ... strike [the court] as wrong with the force of a five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish.'”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The culpability determination is 'heavily dependent upon the facts,' and the defendant has the burden of proving mitigating factors by a preponderance of the evidence.”
14 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.