United States v. Lechuga’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 397 · 1992
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably United States v. Buchanan (1995), Lester Olsen v. William Correiro Alan Silvia the City of Fall River (1999)
36 federal appellate · 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. § 3146 (Bail Reform Act of 1984) · 18 U.S.C. § 3553
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Pelaes v. United States · United States Steel Corporation v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the failure to appear is treated under Sec. 3C1.1 (Obstructing or Impeding the Administration of Justice) as an obstruction of the underlying offense; and the failure to appear count and the count(s) for the underlying offense are grouped together under Sec. 3D1.2(c).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to appear before the court as required by the conditions of his release.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen a defendant has been convicted of an underlying offense and a failure to appear offense ... the Application Notes to the guidelines explicitly provide that those offenses should be grouped for sentencing.”
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.