United States v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 706 · 1991
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Lane v. Peterson · Sisson v. Ruby · Holywell Corp. v. Bank of New York · United States v. Sklar · United States v. Scroggins
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ection 5H1.4 does not prohibit downward departure based on recoveries; it merely prohibits downward departures on the basis of a defendant's theoretical[ly] diminished capacity because of his drug dependence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines that should result in a [different] sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“read policy statement 5H1.4 to mean that dependence upon drugs, or separation from such a dependency, is not a proper basis for a downward departure from the guidelines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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