4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 16 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Ali.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States v. Ali Anchor | green | “blaming someone else for one's own actions or minimizing one's involvement in the offense is not the sort of genuine contrition the acceptance of responsibility reduction seeks to reward” | 4 |
| 2 | United States v. Aliza Jones | green | “the district court was on solid ground in denying that reduction once it found that jones had not fully admitted the extent of her participation in the fraudulent scheme” | 4 |
| 3 | United States v. Philip Fiore, Also Known as Pete, and Louis J. Bombacino, Also Known as John Lordo, Also Known as Louie | green | “sentencing courts must look beyond formalistic expressions of culpability and determine whether the defendant has manifested an acceptance of responsibility for his offense in a moral sense.” | 4 |
| 4 | United States v. Carmella Dawson | green | “were dawson's co-schemers to pay rush hospital any amounts in restitution, we expect that the government would notify dawson of that occurrence so that she could properly file a request for modification of restitution” | 4 |
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