United States v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
976 F.2d 393 · 1992
Citation profile
189 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 256 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Watts (1997), Lindh v. Murphy (1996)
189 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 18 U.S.C. § 471 (Counterfeit Deterrence Act of 1992) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Morrissey v. Brewer · Berger v. United States · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green
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 256 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a presentence report is not evidence and is not a legally sufficient basis for making findings on contested issues of material fact.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the probation officer and the prosecutor believe that the circumstances of the offense, the defendant’s role in the offense, or other pertinent aggravating circumstances, merit a lengthier sentence, they must be prepared to establish that pertinent information by evidence adequate to satisfy the judicial skepticism aroused by the lengthier sentence that the proffered information would require the district court to impose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ ‘sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy’.... ”
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.