United States v. Hatch’s Empirical Analysis
925 F.2d 362 · 1991
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably United States v. Robinson (1992), United States v. Andersen (1991)
18 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. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Solem v. Helm · Woodson v. North Carolina · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Rummel v. Estelle · United States v. Hamblin
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the prevailing practice of individualizing sentencing determinations generally reflects simply enlightened policy rather than a constitutional imperative,' " and therefore, that "a mandatory minimum sentence which dictates the precise weight a particular factor must be given is not unconstitutional.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the prevailing practice of individualizing sentencing determinations generally reflects simply enlightened policy rather than a constitutional imperative,'”
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.