United States v. Stephenson’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 438 · 1990
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably United States v. Hicks (1991), United States v. Campbell (1992)
52 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. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 201 (Bank Bribery Amendments) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Miller v. Florida · United States v. Kikumura · United States v. Kim · United States v. Correa-Vargas · United States v. Lawrence
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]pplying various provisions taken from different versions of the Guidelines would upset the coherency and balance the Commission achieved in promulgating the Guidelines. Such an application would also contravene the express legislative objective of seeking uniformity in sentencing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By allowing the guidelines to take effect, Congress has sanctioned the approach of the Commission, which, as expressed by the Commission's 'Application Instructions' of Sec. 1B1.1, requires that the guidelines be read as a whole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“United States v. Kikumura, 918 F.2d 1084 , 1109 (3d Cir.1990); see United States Sentencing Commission, Guidelines Manual Sec. 1B1.1 (Nov. 1987) (”
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.