Hyde Park Clothes, Inc. v. Hyde Park Fashions, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding abuse of discretion where several factors indicated that the district court’s imposition of sentence was more “mechanistic than measured” (citation modified)
• “In each case, a criminal sentence must reflect an individualized assessment of a particular defendant’s culpability rather than a mechanistic application of a given sentence to a given category of crime.”
• court engaged in mechanical sentencing when it imposed same maximum sentence on all five defendants even though there was evidence of different levels of involvement and the government asked for much lighter terms
• ―In each case, a criminal sentence must reflect an individualized assessment of a particular defendant‘s culpability rather than a mechanistic application of a given sentence to a given category of crime.‖
• “[T]he concept of individualized sentencing is firmly entrenched in our present jurisprudence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).