United States v. Parks’s Empirical Analysis
924 F.2d 68 · 1991
Citation profile
44 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3582 · 18 U.S.C. § 3584 · 18 U.S.C. § 3624 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 656
Relies on United States v. Tucker · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Chitwood v. McLemore · United States v. Watford · United States v. Woolford
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.
“Although district courts often do order concurrent sentences for deféndants in Parks’ situation, we conclude that the Guidelines do not require that result and that the district court here did not err in applying the Guidelines to Parks. We recognize that due deference is afforded to the district court’s application of the Sentencing Guidelines. We hold that it is within the district court’s discretion to order consecutive sentences for pre-Guideline and Guideline convictions even if it uses pre-Guideline conduct in arriving at the Guideline offense level.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be upheld unless [the defendant] demonstrates that it was imposed in violation of the law, was imposed because of an incorrect application of the Guidelines, or is outside the range of applicable Guidelines and is unreasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the sentence imposed on the count carrying the highest statutory maximum is less than the total punishment, then the sentence imposed on one or more of the other counts shall run consecutively, but only to the extent necessary to produce a combined sentence equal to the total punishment. In all other respects sentences on all counts shall run concur rently, except to the extent otherwise required by law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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