United States v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 1081 · 1993
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably United States v. Smith (1993), United States v. Allen (1994)
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
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. § 152 · 18 U.S.C. § 153
Relies on Williams v. United States · Hughey v. United States · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Watson v. United States · Herman v. Department of Treasury
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a defendant willfully obstructed or impeded ... the administration of justice during the investigation ... of the instant offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he conduct relied on to support an obstruction of justice enhancement must relate to the crime of conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“base offense level and specific offense characteristics assigned by the guidelines to the crime of conviction”
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.