United States v. Piper’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 839 · 1990
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2020 · most notably United States v. Ramos (1991), United States v. Aichele (1991)
60 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Lane v. Peterson · Granito v. United States · United States v. Gordon · United States v. Restrepo · United States v. Perez-Franco
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant may be entitled to a Sec. 3E1.1 reduction without being required to confess to unproved, uncharged conduct.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant may controvert evidence of other criminal conduct at sentencing without thereby losing the reduction for acceptance of responsibility.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]ere assertion of a Fifth Amendment right to remain silent ... cannot be grounds for a more lenient sentence; some evidence of contrition is required.”
4 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.