United States v. Newton’s Empirical Analysis
184 F.3d 955 · 1999
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2023
6 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
Relies on Smith v. United States · United States v. Hooten · United States v. Betz · United States v. Payne · United States v. Bost
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For the enhancement to apply, the government is required to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that a weapon was present and that it was at least probable that the weapon had a nexus with the criminal activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by showing the existence of a temporal and spatial relation between the weapon, the drug trafficking activity, and the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.