United States v. Rushby’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 41 · 1991
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably United States v. Rivera (1993), United States v. Amparo (1992)
32 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · Kuntz v. City of Dayton · Norton Ex Rel. Chiles v. Mathews · United States v. Diaz-Villafane · Holywell Corp. v. Bank of 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court [had] departed on the basis of these facts [to which the appellant pointed], its decision could not have withstood legal challenge”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Family ties and responsibilities are not ordinarily relevant in determining whether a sentence should be outside the guidelines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we can review a district court's determination that it is without power to depart”
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.