United States of America v. Armando Grimaldo, - United States of America v. Julio Escobedo-Romero’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Any argument that Jones requires us to interpret drug quantity as an element of a 21 U.S.C. 841 offense is foreclosed by the language of the statute and by circuit precedent. The structure and plain language of the statute leave no doubt that drug quantity is a sentencing factor.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Marion Promise, A/K/A Mario,defendant-Appellant · United States v. Promise

2. “A conspiracy may be inferred from circumstantial evidence,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Cruz · United States of America v. Jose Alberto Mora-Higuera

3. “We are not certain that the Constitution requires [the principle discussed in Jones]. Until this constitutional principle is established, rather than suggested, we decline to find plain error under these circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States of America v. Fabian Aguayo-Delgado