United States v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis
195 F.3d 928 · 1999
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably United States v. Stokes (2000), United States v. Padilla (2008)
21 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. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Dunnigan · Ansari v. Pahlavi · United States v. Tolson · Pace v. Hurt · Texas v. New Mexico
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the sentencing judge alone who, based upon the evidence received, decides the identity and quantity of the drug distributed in an offense. . . . [I]n making these findings, he consider[s] the credibility, knowledge, and experience of the witnesses and determine[s] the reliability of a permissibly-broad range of evidence, including hearsay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the street name for a form of cocaine base, usually prepared by processing cocaine hydrochloride and sodium bicarbonate, and usually appearing in a lumpy, rocklike form.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is the sentencing judge alone who, based upon the evidence received, decides the identity and quantity of the drug distributed in an offense.”
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.