United States v. Amos’s Empirical Analysis
952 F.2d 992 · 1991
Citation profile
32 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez (1992), United States v. Furlow (1992)
32 federal appellate ·
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. § 2241 (Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2242 · 18 U.S.C. § 2243 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Schmuck v. United States · Lane v. Peterson · Kuntz v. City of Dayton · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not intended to apply to a defendant who puts the government to its burden of proof at trial by denying the essential factual elements of guilt, is convicted, and only then admits guilt and expresses remorse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for the adjustment to apply the Government need not show 'a greater degree of force than is necessary to sustain a conviction [of aggravated sexual abuse by force].'”
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.