United States v. Easley’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 283 · 1992
Citation profile
48 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably United States v. Hickok (1996), United States v. Carson (1993)
48 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · United States v. Grayson · Rita v. United States · Johnson v. Derwinski · United States v. Briscoe
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant willfully obstructed or impeded, or attempted to obstruct or impede, the administration of justice during the investigation, prosecution, or sentencing of the instant offense, increase the offense level by 2 levels.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the best position to evaluate [Agostino's] truthfulness,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ll that the district court must do is make a specific, independent finding that a defendant was less than truthful when he testified.”
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.