United States v. Hahn’s Empirical Analysis
17 F.3d 502 · 1994
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably United States v. Eusebio Escobar-De Jesus (1999), United States v. Rodriguez (1998)
31 federal appellate · 1 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Huddleston v. United States · Iannelli v. United States · Kuntz v. City of Dayton · Conway v. Statesman Mortgage Co. · Wright v. Wright
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evidence may be entirely circumstantial, and need not exclude every hypothesis of innocence; that is, the factfinder may decide among reasonable interpretations of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to exclude trivial amounts derived from occasional drug sales,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e resolve all credibility issues in favor of the verdict.”
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.