United States v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
977 F.2d 861 · 1992
Citation profile
60 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably United States v. Dale (1993), United States v. Aramony (1999)
60 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Williams v. United States · Kashif v. United States · Yamamoto v. United States · United States v. Bayerle · Hendrick v. Avent
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“perceived lack of legal authority to do so”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specific reasons cited by the district court in support of its sentence outside the Guidelines range to ascertain whether those reasons encompass factors 'not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines.' 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3553 (b).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reject[ing] sentencing disparity as a basis for departure when confronted with disparate sentences among both codefendants and coconspirators ...,”
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.