United States v. Pollard’s Empirical Analysis
986 F.2d 44 · 1993
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably United States v. Dickler (1995), United States v. Martin (1998)
27 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 2241 (Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (Mann Act)) · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · United States v. Kikumura · United States v. Mobley · United States v. Cianscewski
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no statutory or constitutional requirement that a defendant be convicted of conduct before the conduct may be considered in sentencing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider uncharged, relevant state conduct as well as federal. . . . [W]hile it was important to the district court's consideration [of his sentence] that [the defendant] committed [a state law crime], it makes no difference that the same court lacked jurisdiction to try him for it”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] sentencing court possesses great discretion in the conduct it may consider ... even if the conduct was not proven at trial, but came from a presentence report.”
1 later decision 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.