United States v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
989 F.2d 347 · 1993
Citation profile
35 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably United States v. McKinney (1994), United States v. Karterman (1995)
35 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 Brewster v. Derwinski · Nicholas v. United States · Joseph v. United States · San Vicente Medical Partners, Ltd. v. Orr · United Air Lines, Inc. v. McMann
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the sentencing judge is in a unique position to evaluate a defendant's acceptance of responsibility, the district court's determination is entitled to great deference on review.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“generate corporate foreign tax payments which are then claimed on a domestic personal income tax return as foreign tax credits is sufficiently 'more complex' than 'routine tax evasion”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a 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.”
2 later decisions 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.