United States v. Hatchett’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 369 · 1991
Citation profile
47 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Calverley (1994), United States v. Pofahl (1993)
47 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. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 991 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Alexander v. United States · McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco · Grogan v. Garner · United States v. Mejia-Orosco · United States v. Buenrostro
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assure that the guidelines and policy statements are entirely neutral as to the race, sex, national origin, creed, and socioeconomic status of offenders.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“No limitation shall be placed on the information concerning the background, character, and conduct of a person convicted of an offense which a court of the United States may receive and consider for the purpose of imposing an appropriate sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“those statements are too interrelated to characterize some as actual considerations in sentencing and others as mere observations,”
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.