United States v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
930 F.2d 1450 · 1991
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably United States v. Bell (1993), United States v. Saucedo (1991)
104 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742
Relies on Mistretta v. United States · Miller v. Florida · Kliewer v. New Jersey · United States v. Eichman · Thomas v. Southtrust Bank of Alabama
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an order [vacating a sentence and remanding for resentencing] directs the sentencing court to begin anew, so that 'fully de novo resentencing' is entirely appropriate.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the district court's finding [is] insufficient, as a matter of law, to justify the adjustment of appellant's offense level under § 3A1.1.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court shall impose a sentence [within the Guidelines range] unless the court finds that there exists an aggravating or mitigating circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines * * *.”
3 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.