United States v. Boshell’s Empirical Analysis
952 F.2d 1101 · 1991
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably United States v. Sitton (1992), United States v. Mejia (1991)
60 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3500 · 18 U.S.C. § 3551 (Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Mistretta v. United States · Marino v. United States
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be reconciled by limiting consideration of offender characteristics to adjustments within the guidelines range, and allowing departures from this range for offender characteristics only in extraordinary circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“family ties and responsibilities ... are not ordinarily relevant in determining whether a sentence should be outside the applicable guideline range.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
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.