substantial assistance
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 518 U.S. 120 - Melendez v. United States · 1996Most cited · 497 citing opinions
something different in the two places (the Guideline and the Statute) where they appear, and I cannot imagine any reason why the Commission would have wanted to create different standards through the use of identical words, thereby creating additional administrative complexity and risking unnecessary confusion.
How often courts cite the case defining “substantial assistance”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “substantial assistance” — 497 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.