United States v. Sivils’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 587 · 1992
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably United States v. Carroll (1994), Stokes v. United States (1992)
87 federal appellate · 6 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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · Oregon v. Mathiason · Bibby 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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [defendant] could demonstrate that the government manipulated the dollar amount of cocaine to increase his sentence, such manipulation would certainly provide a fundamental unfairness defense against the higher sentence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Defendants bear a heavy burden of showing that specific and compelling prejudice resulted from the joint trial and that such prejudice could have been rectified only by separate trials.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“review a district court's factual findings in connection with sentencing under a 'clearly erroneous' standard,”
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.