United States v. James Alan Burch

How courts have described this case

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

• court justifies upward departure only on defendant’s social history and criminal past
• no downward departure because of the defendant's talents
• no downward departure because of the defendant's talents

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

40 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Uriel Lara-Velasquez
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-12-11· cited 196×
• United States v. Amy Ralston Pofahl, Charles T. Nunn, and Randy White
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-05-06· cited 188×
• United States v. John C. Mueller
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-05-22· cited 139×
• United States v. Rogelio Lara, Carlos Morales, Francisco Delgado, Carlos Morales
  Second Circuit· 1990-05-30· cited 133×
• United States v. William J. Osborne, Thomas E. Hanna and Joseph Urbano, Jr., Also Known as Toby Urbano
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-06-06· cited 118×
• United States v. Wisting R. Fierro, Olga L. Martinez, Jaime Ibanez A/K/A Ibania, Jesus A. Serna, Jose J. Grajales, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-11-11· cited 118×
• United States v. Ricardo Rodriguez
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-03-29· cited 110×
• United States v. Mattie Lou Thomas
  Seventh Circuit· 1991-05-23· cited 98×
• United States v. Sidney Francis Mourning
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-10-01· cited 96×
• United States v. Anthony Duane Reed, United States of America v. Anthony Duane Reed
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-08-18· cited 89×
• United States v. Wavell A. Robinson
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-03-13· cited 76×
• United States v. Ronald Joseph Puma, A/K/A Ronny Puma, Donnie K. Nichols, A/K/A Dead Weight and Dw, and Ernest Raymond Dodd, A/K/A Rd
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-08-29· cited 69×
• United States v. Jesus Palta, A/K/A \Jesus Antonio Palta Morales\, A/K/A \Luis Eduardo Toro\, and Edison A. Marmolejo
  Second Circuit· 1989-07-10· cited 67×
• United States v. Alejandro Cantero, Also Known as Alex Cantero and Salvador Arteaga-Bernal
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-06-14· cited 67×
• United States v. Renard Barone
  Second Circuit· 1990-08-31· cited 66×
• United States v. N. Slade Sharpsteen
  Second Circuit· 1990-09-18· cited 62×
• United States v. Danny R. Warters
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-09-29· cited 61×
• United States v. Eugene Sherbak, United States of America v. John Douglas Salih
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-01-08· cited 60×
• United States v. Alvarez
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-04-14· cited 46×
• United States v. Jose Jesus Lira-Barraza, Civ. A. No. 88-5161
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-02-28· cited 42×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1949-06-06· cited 2,766×
• United States v. Juventino Mejia-Orosco
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-03-31· cited 225×
• United States v. Esperanza Lopez
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-04-14· cited 56×
• United States v. Juan Jose Velasquez
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-12-17· cited 34×
• United States v. Harold Leroy Fisher
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-03-07· cited 22×