United States v. Melody Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• § 3E1.1 does not impinge on a defendant’s right to trial because acceptance of responsibility can be determined from a defendant’s conduct after trial
• “[T]he determination of the sentencing judge is entitled to great deference on review and should not be disturbed unless it is without foundation.”
• applying the \without foundation\ standard
• applying the \without foundation\ standard
• applying the \without foundation\ standard

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Tracey Donell White, United States of America v. Clarence Jackson
  Fourth Circuit· 1989-05-22· cited 292×
• United States v. Wing Fook Lui
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-08-05· cited 230×
• United States v. Jerry Williams
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-12-17· cited 198×
• United States v. Eddie Wayne Roberson
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-05-24· cited 197×
• United States v. Thomas
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-01-25· cited 189×
• United States v. Pedro v. Spedalieri
  Tenth Circuit· 1990-08-07· cited 188×
• United States v. Roberto Gonzalez
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-03-07· cited 154×
• United States v. Sixto Humberto Sanchez, United States of America v. Reyes Acebes Barajas, United States of America v. Richard T. Terrones
  Ninth Circuit· 1990-07-17· cited 154×
• United States v. Dana Ray Morrison
  Sixth Circuit· 1993-01-12· cited 149×
• United States v. Virgile Jeffrey Barrett (88-6410) and Jeffrey B. Dolan (88-6411)
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-02-06· cited 138×
• United States v. Devine
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-06-20· cited 131×
• United States v. Roy Lee Pierce, James Evans
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-02-14· cited 130×
• United States v. William M. Carroll
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-01-09· cited 124×
• United States v. Lawrence Wilson
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-06-29· cited 122×
• United States v. Alfonso Blanco
  First Circuit· 1989-11-07· cited 122×
• 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. Raul Martin Franco-Torres and Manuel Velo-Gonzalez
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-03-24· cited 117×
• United States v. Elizabeth Chalkias (91-3528) Hendrick Gil (91-3783) and Mercedes Rodriguez (91-3773)
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-10-13· cited 117×
• United States v. Carl Leslie Buggs
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-05-18· cited 112×
• United States v. Spires
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-03-22· cited 109×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mistretta v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1989-01-18· cited 2,457×
• United States v. Leonard Orozco Buenrostro
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-03-08· cited 271×
• United States v. White
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-03-31· cited 193×
• United States v. Galo Eduardo Sarasti
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-03-24· cited 93×
• United States v. Juventino Mejia-Orosco
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-03-31· cited 84×