United States v. John Bigley

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing sentencing manipulation where an “officer ma[de] multiple drug buys from the defendant before finally arresting him”
• finding plain error where district court failed to consider defendant’s nonfrivolous mitigation argument
• sentencing law calls for district court to “respond[ ] to a defendant’s arguments”
• sentencing law calls for district court to “respond[] to a defendant’s arguments”
• district court “may have thought it was prohibited, as a matter of law, from considering” sentencing entrapment
• reversing below-Guidelines sentence for failure to consider nonfrivolous argument

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Christian Borda
  D.C. Circuit· 2017-02-21· cited 38×
• United States v. Brandon Rock
  D.C. Circuit· 2017-07-18· cited 34×
• United States v. Devon Hunt
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-12-20· cited 33×
• Rothe Development, Inc. v. United States Department of Defense
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-09-09· cited 22×
• United States v. Kevin Mack
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-11-15· cited 19×
• United States v. Darius McKeever
  D.C. Circuit· 2016-06-10· cited 18×
• United States v. Chad Pyles
  D.C. Circuit· 2017-07-07· cited 18×
• United States v. McLean
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2016-08-08· cited 7×
• United States v. Parker
  District of Columbia· 2016-11-30· cited 7×
• United States v. King-Gore
  District of Columbia· 2017-11-28· cited 5×
• United States v. Michael Monzel
  D.C. Circuit· 2019-07-19· cited 4×
• State v. Tannert
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2016-09-29· cited 1×
• United States v. Kamal King-Gore
  D.C. Circuit· 2017-11-28
• United States v. James Honesty
  D.C. Circuit· 2026-06-16
• Don Gordon v. William Heath
  Fourth Circuit· 2026-06-24

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Booker
  Supreme Court· 2004-10-01· cited 23,210×
• Gall v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2007-12-10· cited 20,598×
• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Rita v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-21· cited 7,739×
• Kimbrough v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2007-12-10· cited 3,379×
• United States v. Cavera
  Second Circuit· 2008-12-04· cited 1,656×
• United States v. Mondragon-Santiago
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-03-26· cited 1,488×
• United States v. Lynn
  Fourth Circuit· 2010-01-28· cited 1,047×
• Pepper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2011-03-02· cited 814×
• United States v. Jose Flores-Mejia
  Third Circuit· 2014-07-16· cited 249×
• United States v. Carlos Saro, United States of America v. Cornelio Cabrera-Baez
  D.C. Circuit· 1994-08-23· cited 208×
• United States v. Sevilla
  Third Circuit· 2008-09-04· cited 92×
• United States v. Rodolfo Trujillo
  Ninth Circuit· 2013-04-16· cited 85×
• In Re Sealed Case
  D.C. Circuit· 2008-06-03· cited 72×
• In Re Sealed Case
  D.C. Circuit· 2009-07-28· cited 72×
• United States v. Riley S. Walls, Sr., United States of America, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Karen M. Blakney, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-02-13· cited 72×
• United States v. Juncal
  Second Circuit· 2013-07-23· cited 67×
• United States v. Fred M. Glover
  D.C. Circuit· 1999-03-02· cited 47×
• United States v. Beltran
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-06-12· cited 45×
• United States of America, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Sharon M. Shepherd, A/K/A Sharon S. Ortega, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  D.C. Circuit· 1997-03-04· cited 36×