United States v. Fine’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 596 · 1992
Citation profile
157 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 241 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably United States v. Guzman-Bruno (1994), United States v. Vasquez-Velasco (1994)
157 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1342 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Chapman v. United States · Sisson v. Ruby · Musser v. States · Carter v. Nesby
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 241 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all such acts and omissions that were part of the same course of conduct or common scheme or plan as the offense of conviction.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e accept the district court's findings of fact unless they are clearly erroneous, and give due deference to the district court's application of the guidelines to the facts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seeks a sentence below what the guidelines require, which would be contrary to the expectation of a sentence in accord with the guidelines.”
4 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.