United States v. McRae’s Empirical Analysis
156 F.3d 708 · 1998
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably United States of America v. Darhee Gray McKissick (2000), United States v. Lawrence (2002)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Rakas v. Illinois · Colorado v. Connelly · Bailey v. United States · United States v. Dunnigan
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on an inference that [an enhancement] was based upon the government's arguments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'To establish ... that the firearm was carried”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For a district court to enhance a defendant’s sentence under § 3C1.1, the court must: 1) identify those particular portions of defendant’s testimony that it considers to be perjurious; and 2) either make a specific finding for each element of perjury or, at least, make a finding that encompasses all of the factual predicates for a finding of perjury.”
1 later decision 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.