United States v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
949 F.2d 968 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Santiago · United States v. Lawrence
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the circumstances surrounding the 1983 offense [were] factually and temporally distinct from his present offense and thus should not [have been] used to calculate his base offense level.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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