United States v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 127 · 1993
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3584 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Brown v. United States · United States v. Gullickson · United States v. Gibson · United States v. Cardinal · United States v. Stewart
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he sentence for the instant offense shall be imposed to run consecutively to the prior unexpired term of imprisonment to the extent necessary to achieve a reasonable incremental punishment for the instant offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he goal of U.S.S.G. Sec. 5G1.3 is to provide incremental punishment and to approximate the total punishment that would have been imposed under U.S.S.G. Sec. 5G1.2.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] district court is authorized to impose consecutive or concurrent sentences if a term of imprisonment is imposed on a defendant already subject to another sentence. 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3584 .”
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.