United States v. Walker

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How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that whether the defendant played an integral role \is not the correct legal standard\
• noting that whether the defendant played an integral role \is not the correct legal standard\
• noting that such a reduction to the offense level can be four levels for a minimal participant, two levels for a minor participant, and three levels if culpability falls somewhere between
• describing the analysis as requiring \a judgment about the defendant's own conduct and a comparison to the other participants\
• discussing the \vexing\ nuances of this assessment in small-scale criminal enterprises
• emphasizing \that comparing participants based on the Guideline factors is critical\

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Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  First Circuit· 2024-08-23· cited 8×
• United States v. Lopez-Felicie
  First Circuit· 2024-07-22· cited 3×
• United States v. Melendez
  First Circuit· 2024-08-23
• United States v. Guia-Sendeme
  First Circuit· 2025-04-18
• United States v. Ceballos
  First Circuit· 2025-07-08
• United States v. Robles-Lopez
  First Circuit· 2026-03-04

Cites

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

• Gall v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2007-12-10· cited 20,598×
• United States v. Fausto D. Ruiz
  First Circuit· 1990-06-05· cited 224×
• United States v. Graciani
  First Circuit· 1995-07-24· cited 134×
• United States v. Cintrón-Echautegui
  First Circuit· 2010-04-14· cited 117×
• United States v. Malik Nasir
  Third Circuit· 2021-11-08· cited 112×
• United States v. Gonzalez-Soberal
  First Circuit· 1997-03-27· cited 71×
• United States v. Donald P. Carpenter
  Second Circuit· 2001-06-08· cited 70×
• United States v. George Chapdelaine
  First Circuit· 1993-05-04· cited 68×
• United States v. Pope
  Second Circuit· 2009-02-03· cited 68×
• United States v. Alejandro Aguilar Diaz
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-03-09· cited 62×
• United States v. Joseph L. Medeiros, Jr.
  First Circuit· 1990-03-02· cited 49×
• United States v. Alphas
  First Circuit· 2015-05-07· cited 38×
• United States v. Francisco Sanchez-Villarreal
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-05-23· cited 38×
• United States v. Carrasco-Mateo
  First Circuit· 2004-11-23· cited 36×
• United States v. Yurek (Wendy)
  Tenth Circuit· 2019-05-21· cited 32×
• United States v. Nuñez
  First Circuit· 2017-03-29· cited 31×
• United States v. Milton Lavender, United States of America v. Steven H. Lee, United States of America v. Jose Alfredo Rodriguez, AKA Juan Martinez
  Ninth Circuit· 2000-08-29· cited 30×
• United States v. Goergen
  First Circuit· 2012-06-01· cited 29×
• United States v. Ronnie Kearby
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-11-25· cited 29×
• United States v. Serunjogi
  First Circuit· 2014-09-24· cited 27×