United States v. Ashers’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 411 · 1992
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably United States v. Ancheta (1994), United States v. Garnett (2001)
21 federal appellate ·
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 Williams v. United States · Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund v. Presti · Johnson v. Derwinski · Kansas v. Colorado · United States v. Hicks
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.
“defendants who engage in conduct calculated to mislead or deceive authorities or those involved in a judicial proceeding ... and applies to a wide range of conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the defendant willfully obstructed or impeded, or attempted to obstruct or impede, the administration of justice ...”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“application of an enhancement to the offense level is mandatory, as opposed to discretionary, in the event the defendant engaged in conduct that is encompassed by a guideline providing for an enhancement”
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.