United States v. Martinez-Cortez’s Empirical Analysis
924 F.2d 921 · 1991
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3561 · 18 U.S.C. § 3572 · 18 U.S.C. § 3583 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Mistretta v. United States · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Lane v. Peterson · Delaware v. New York
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to minimize the likelihood that the Federal prison population will exceed the capacity of the Federal prisons,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Commission extensively studied the effect of the proposed guidelines upon the prison population,”
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.