United States v. Zapata’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 46 · 1993
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United States v. Arzate-Nunez (1994), United States v. Alicea (2000)
53 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1326 (§ 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Stinson v. United States · Roy v. Gravel · In re Miller · United States v. Harotunian · United States v. La Guardia
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“double counting is a phenomenon that is less sinister than the name implies.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ourts should strive to apply the guidelines as written, giving full force and effect to the Sentencing Commission's interpretive commentary and application notes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“commentary in the Guidelines Manual that interprets or explains a guideline is authoritative unless it violates the Constitution or a federal statute, or is inconsistent with, or a plainly erroneous reading of, that guideline,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.