United States v. Mortimer’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.3d 89 · 1996
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2010
8 federal appellate · 3 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. § 844 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · United States v. Miller · United States v. Porter · United States v. Kassar · United States v. Mortimer
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because payment schedules under the IFRP are not fixed according to a predetermined formula, but rather vary at the discretion of the prison staff, the delegation is just as real as in Porter,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a district court may not delegate its authority to set the amount and timing of fine payments to the Bureau of Prisons or the probation officer”
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.