United States v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a sentence that is less than half of the bottom end of the GSR is unreasonably low
• explaining that “the farther the judge’s sentence departs from the guidelines sentence ... the more compelling the justification ... the judge must offer” (citation omitted)
• holding district court did not err, inter alia, by considering age because “[t]hat a factor is discouraged or forbidden under the guidelines does not automatically make it irrelevant”
• “Framing a ... sentence is, in the first instance, the responsibility of the district judge”
• setting aside 46-month sentence for crack distribution carrying a guidelines sentencing range of 100-125 months
• reversing as unreasonable a sentence of 46 months when the advisory guidelines range was 100 to 125 months

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rita v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2007-06-21· cited 7,739×
• United States v. Martin
  First Circuit· 2008-03-21· cited 412×
• United States v. Ofray-Campos
  First Circuit· 2008-07-07· cited 269×
• United States v. James Rattoballi
  Second Circuit· 2006-06-21· cited 209×
• United States v. Michael A. Crisp
  Eleventh Circuit· 2006-07-07· cited 206×
• United States v. Turbides-Leonardo
  First Circuit· 2006-11-14· cited 200×
• United States v. William J. Davis
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-08-14· cited 136×
• United States v. Del Valle-Rodriguez
  First Circuit· 2014-08-04· cited 111×
• United States v. Zapete-Garcia
  First Circuit· 2006-05-08· cited 95×
• United States v. Joseph Pellether
  First Circuit· 2006-11-28· cited 82×
• United States v. Poynter
  Sixth Circuit· 2007-07-26· cited 81×
• United States v. Fernandez-Cabrera
  First Circuit· 2010-11-05· cited 74×
• United States v. Paul Buchanan
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-05-26· cited 74×
• United States v. Vargas
  First Circuit· 2009-03-17· cited 72×
• United States v. MacEo Simmons, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-11-21· cited 70×
• United States v. Navedo-Concepcion
  First Circuit· 2006-06-09· cited 62×
• United States v. Mueffelman
  First Circuit· 2006-11-28· cited 56×
• United States v. Montero-Montero
  First Circuit· 2016-03-23· cited 47×
• United States v. Bishop
  Tenth Circuit· 2006-11-09· cited 45×
• United States v. Davis
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-08-12· cited 44×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Booker
  Supreme Court· 2004-10-01· cited 23,210×
• United States v. Brian A. Moreland, United States of America v. Brian A. Moreland
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-02-22· cited 576×
• United States v. Lavell Dean
  Seventh Circuit· 2005-07-07· cited 466×
• United States v. Russell H. Wogan
  First Circuit· 1991-07-18· cited 160×
• United States v. Quiana Ganay Hampton
  Fourth Circuit· 2006-03-23· cited 144×
• United States v. Jimenez-Beltre
  First Circuit· 2006-03-09· cited 140×
• United States v. Pho
  First Circuit· 2006-01-05· cited 117×
• United States v. Lynn Marie Lazenby, United States of America v. Christine Marie Goodwin
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-03-10· cited 99×
• United States v. Duhon
  Fifth Circuit· 2006-02-17· cited 92×
• McDonald v. Piedmont Aviation, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1991-11-18· cited 67×
• United States v. Patrick James McMannus United States of America v. Sheri Brinton
  Eighth Circuit· 2006-02-03· cited 63×
• United States v. Robinson
  First Circuit· 2005-12-23· cited 52×