United States v. Abdullah’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.3d 897 · 1998
Citation profile
25 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Davis (2005), United States v. Mack (2001)
25 federal appellate ·
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Katz v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Rakas v. Illinois
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to keep open the very avenues by which interstate commerce is transacted”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could find the elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A 'miscarriage of justice' exists only if the record is 'devoid of evidence pointing to guilt.'”
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.