United States v. Voss’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 1007 · 1992
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably United States v. Rahman (1999), United States v. Diaz (2001)
33 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Halas v. Department of Energy · Norman v. Reed · United States v. Saucedo · United States v. Smith
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the need for the sentence imposed—(A) to reflect the seriousness of the offense, to promote respect for the law, and to provide just punishment for the offense; (B) to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct; (C) to protect the public from further crimes of the defendant; and (D) to provide the defendant with needed educational or vocational training, medical care, or other correctional treatment in the most effective manner. -”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not license us to disregard the lower court's plain legal error”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If there is not a sufficiently analogous guideline, the provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3553(b) shall control . . . .”
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.