United States v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
913 F.2d 136 · 1990
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably United States v. Morrill (1993), United States v. Smith (1994)
34 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on United States v. Summers · United States v. Lopez · United States v. Moree · United States v. Tindle
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he vulnerability that triggers § 3A1.1 must be an 'unusual' vulnerability which is present only in some victims of that type of crime.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extra measure of criminal depravity which § 3A1.1 intends to more severely punish.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 4A1.3. Departures Based on Inadequacy of Criminal History Category (Policy Statement) (a) Upward Departures.— (1) Standard for Upward Departure. — If reliable information indicates that the defendant’s criminal history category substantially under-represents the seriousness of the defendant’s criminal history or the likelihood that the defendant will commit other crimes, an upward departure may be warranted. (2) Types of Information Forming the Basis for Upward Departure. — The information described in subsection (a) may include information concerning the following: (A) Prior sentence(s) not used in computing the criminal history category (e.g., sentences for foreign and tribal offenses).”
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.