United States v. Hooker’s Empirical Analysis
993 F.2d 898 · 1993
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. Davis (1995), United States v. Mathena (1994)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3565 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Williams v. United States · Minnesota v. Murphy · Black v. Romano · United States v. Lee · United States of America v. Headrick
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is ... unclear whether a clear and convincing standard would be in the best interests of defendants as a class. When a district judge makes the initial choice between incarceration and probation, he no doubt considers the ease with which probation can be revoked if the defendant does not honor the conditions of probation. The more difficult we make it for trial judges to revoke probation the less likely they will be to offer defendants probation in the first place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“where a policy statement prohibits a district court from taking a specified action, the statement is an authoritative guide to the meaning of the applicable guideline.” - U.S. -, -, 112 S.Ct. 1112, 1119 , 117 L.Ed.2d 341 (1992). As the D.C. Circuit noted in Hooker , Chapter VII policy statements are”
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.