United States v. Yount’s Empirical Analysis
960 F.2d 955 · 1992
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably United States v. Tardiff (1992), United States v. Blake (1996)
48 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on United States v. Roberson · United States v. Huppert · United States v. Long
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applies to offenses where an unusually vulnerable victim is made a target of criminal activity by the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We hold that courts properly may look beyond the four corners of the charge to the defendant's underlying conduct in determining whether someone is a 'vulnerable victim' under section 3A1.1.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, although ultimately the bank was the victim, that is only because [Jury] got caught.”
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.