United States v. James Michael Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• district court’s determination that it- lacks discretion to depart from the sentencing guidelines is reviewed de novo
• appellate review proper where record supports inference that court's refusal to depart rested on court's belief that it lacked authority to depart
• age at time of prior convictions and nature of those convictions are proper factors to consider in determining whether career offender status significantly over-represents seriousness of defendant’s criminal history

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. James Collins
  Tenth Circuit· 1997-08-05· cited 130×
• United States v. Jose Garza Cantu
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-12-27· cited 105×
• United States v. Leo Asberry
  Ninth Circuit· 2005-01-11· cited 80×
• United States v. Michael Wayne Eaton
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-07-26· cited 70×
• United States v. Chang Guo You, United States of America v. Mi Ae Yim, AKA Mi Ae Pigman
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-08-31· cited 68×
• United States v. Leon E. Hendrickson
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-05-18· cited 47×
• United States v. Rachelle L. Miller
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-04-15· cited 43×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James A. BERGER, Jr., Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-12-13· cited 40×
• United States v. Kenneth Shoupe
  Third Circuit· 1993-03-12· cited 39×
• United States v. Hoa Cam Lam
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-03-31· cited 36×
• United States v. Chet Govan
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-08-03· cited 32×
• United States v. Arthur A. Cureton
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-07-16· cited 31×
• United States v. Mastera
  First Circuit· 2006-01-20· cited 27×
• United States v. Anthony Boykin
  Ninth Circuit· 2015-05-18· cited 27×
• United States v. Frank Edward Abbott
  Seventh Circuit· 1994-07-20· cited 22×
• In Re Sealed Case No. 98-3116
  D.C. Circuit· 1999-12-28· cited 21×
• UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Carlos FLORES-URIBE, Defendant-Appellant
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-02-18· cited 19×
• United States v. Hammond
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2003-01-07· cited 11×
• State v. Friederich-Tibbets
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-05-24· cited 8×
• United States v. Nguyen
  N.D. Iowa· 2002-05-17· cited 4×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Jose Jesus Lira-Barraza
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-07-22· cited 314×
• United States v. Lucio Morales
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-03-05· cited 266×
• United States v. Steven Charles Belden
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-02-20· cited 180×
• United States v. Jose Fernando Garcia-Garcia
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-03-04· cited 173×
• United States v. Andrew Earl Chapnick
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-04-29· cited 168×
• United States v. James E. Carey
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-01-12· cited 158×
• United States v. Arthur Lieberman
  Third Circuit· 1992-07-24· cited 115×
• United States v. Luz Maria Amparo, A/K/A Luz Maria Amparo Sanchez
  First Circuit· 1992-04-08· cited 102×
• United States v. Robert Donald Russell
  First Circuit· 1989-03-30· cited 101×
• United States v. Melvin Raymond Lawrence
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-10-10· cited 82×
• United States v. Andre Rogers
  Second Circuit· 1992-08-12· cited 55×
• United States v. David Joseph Berlier
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-10-31· cited 54×
• United States of America, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Bobby Dale Smith, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-07-27· cited 50×
• United States v. B. Roe
  Ninth Circuit· 1992-10-06· cited 48×
• United States v. Michael Neal Lauzon
  First Circuit· 1991-07-16· cited 43×
• United States v. James McFrancis Crumb, Jr.
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-05-09· cited 19×