United States v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 895 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably United States v. Harris (1997), United States v. Lombard (1995)
15 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. § 924
Relies on Stinson v. United States · McMillan v. Pennsylvania · United States v. DiFrancesco · United States v. Scott · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he adjustment should be applied if the weapon was present, unless it is clearly improbable that the weapon was connected with the offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“could reasonably have foreseen that a firearm would be present in a car that was picking him up after a drug transaction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In some way, the law must be modified. A just system of criminal sentencing cannot fail to distinguish between an allegation of conduct resulting in a conviction and an allegation of conduct resulting in an acquittal.”
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.