United States v. Ellen’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 462 · 1992
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably City of Carmel-by-the-Sea v. United States Department of Transportation (1997), United States v. Reese (1993)
31 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 Miller v. California · Marks v. United States · Book Named 'John Cleland's Memoirs of Woman of Pleasure' v. Attorney General of Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Osborne v. Ohio · United States v. Hummer
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) If the offense resulted in an ongoing, continuous, or repetitive discharge, release, or emission of a pollutant into the environment, increase by 6 levels; or (B) if the offense otherwise involved a discharge, release, or emission of a pollutant, increase by 4 levels.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause 'the Guidelines are explicit when double counting is forbidden, ... [a]n adjustment that clearly applies to the conduct of an offense must be imposed unless the Guidelines expressly exclude its applicability'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“incremental adjustment schedule that serves to advance the Guidelines' fundamental goal of proportionality in sentencing.”
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.