In re Sealed Case’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.3d 1460 · 1997
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably United States v. Mathis (2000), United States v. McLean (2005)
49 federal appellate · 5 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 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Pinkerton v. United States · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Yagow v. United States · Nagac v. Derwinski
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) “the defendant does not have more than 1 criminal history point (2) "the defendant did not use violence or credible threats of violence or possess a firearm or other dangerous weapon (or induce another participant to do so) in connection with the offense”; (3) “the offense did not result in death or serious bodily injury to any person”; (4) "the defendant was not an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of others in the offense ...”; and (5) "the defendant has truthfully provided to the Government all information and evidence the defendant has concerning the offense ..."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]here must be some action, some word, or some conduct that links the individual to the contraband and indicates that he had some stake in it, some power over it.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“committed, aided, abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, procured, or willfully caused.”
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.