United States v. Sample

How courts have described this case

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

• holding “the district court’s reliance on [one factor] as overriding all other sentencing considerations exceeded the bounds of permissible choice”
• collecting authorities for the proposition that “courts should not rely on a defendant’s wealth in fashioning a sentence”
• considering the harm inflicted upon a victim as part of the crime’s “seriousness”
• “The record is clear that the district court imposed a lenient probation sentence because Sample’s high income allowed him to make restitution payments to his victims. Our system of justice has no sentencing discount for wealth.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Tenth Circuit· 2025-03-11· cited 11×
• United States v. Willis
  D. New Mexico· 2019-06-07· cited 7×
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  Tenth Circuit· 2025-06-25· cited 5×
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Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gall v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2007-12-10· cited 20,598×
• United States v. Rick A. Kuhlman
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-03-08· cited 244×
• United States v. Levinson
  Third Circuit· 2008-09-18· cited 228×
• United States v. Michael Martin
  Eleventh Circuit· 2006-07-11· cited 194×
• United States v. Friedman
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-02-10· cited 157×
• United States v. Barbara E. Stefonek, Cross-Appellee
  Seventh Circuit· 1999-06-03· cited 138×
• United States v. Sayad
  Tenth Circuit· 2009-12-22· cited 115×
• United States v. Pinson
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-09-17· cited 89×
• United States v. Mueffelman
  First Circuit· 2006-11-28· cited 56×
• United States v. Walker
  Tenth Circuit· 2017-01-04· cited 52×
• United States v. Stall
  Sixth Circuit· 2009-09-11· cited 48×
• United States v. Stevenson
  First Circuit· 2012-07-13· cited 22×