United States v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
910 F.2d 1321 · 1990
Citation profile
135 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Restrepo (1991), United States v. Cromer (2004)
135 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Faretta v. California · United States v. Tucker · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall be determined on the basis of ... all such acts and omissions that were part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction....”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in a drug distribution case, quantities and types of drugs not specified in the count of conviction are to be included in determining the offense level if they were part of a common scheme or plan as the count of conviction.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the entire quantity of [drugs] attributable to a distribution enterprise must be used to establish the base offense level....”
8 later decisions 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.