United States v. Shonubi’s Empirical Analysis
998 F.2d 84 · 1993
Citation profile
71 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably United States v. Sepulveda (1993), United States v. Cabrera (2002)
71 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 United States v. Dunnigan · Doerr v. Doerr · Gregory v. Frontier Materials, Inc. · Martin v. Delaware · Marino v. Ortiz
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] sentencing court's assessment of the defendant's role in criminal activity is highly fact-specific and depends upon the nature of the defendant's relationship to other participants, the importance of the defendant's actions to the success of the venture, and the defendant's awareness of the nature and scope of the criminal enterprise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) more than one criminal history point; (2) used violence, or credible threats of violence, or possessed a firearm “in connection with the offense;” (3) committed an offense that resulted in death or serious injury; (4) been a leader or manager of others in the offense or been engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise; or (5) failed to provide to the government, prior to sentencing, all information and evidence he has concerning the offense or offenses that were part of the same course of conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“err on the side of caution. " 8 Id. at 1198 (quoting United States v. Sklar, 920 F.2d 107 , 113 (1st Cir.1990)); see also United States v. Shonubi, 998 F.2d 84 , 89-90 (2d Cir.1993) ("This careful practice is essential where a defendant's sentence depends in such large measure on the amount of drugs deemed attributable to his conduct.”
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.