United States v. Litchfield’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 1514 · 1992
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Robertson (1995), United States v. Mustread (1994)
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 2314 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3584 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Frady · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Nix v. Whiteside · 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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Key determinants of the applicability of 3B1.1 are control or organization.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 3B1.1(a) is an enhancement for organizers or leaders, not for important or essential figures.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the nature of participation in the commission of the offense,”
2 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.