United States v. Eiselt’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 677 · 1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2019
3 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
Relies on Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · Continental Casualty Co. v. UNR Industries, Inc. · United States v. Edwards
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Reasons' means something more than conclusions--a distinction important not only to the defendant whose future is at stake but also to the appellate process....[W]ithout an adequate understanding of the court's reasoning, we can do little on review to ensure that departure decisions are also applied in a just and consistent manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must clearly explain the reasons for the departure and make any necessary factual findings as required by the guidelines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The guidelines must be used as a reference when departing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.