United States v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 397 · 1992
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably United States v. Zimmer (1994), United States v. Junior T. Johnson (1993)
33 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. § 1029 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Miami Center Ltd. Partnership v. Bank of New York · United States v. Thomas · United States v. Rodriguez
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he sentencing judge is in a unique position to evaluate a defendant's acceptance of responsibility,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“challenge will be successful only in extraordinary circumstances”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Entry of a plea of guilty prior to the commencement of trial combined with truthfully admission of involvement in the offense and related conduct will constitute significant evidence of acceptance of responsibility for the purposes of this section. However, this evidence may be outweighed by conduct of the defendant that is inconsistent with such acceptance of responsibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.