United States v. Zehm’s Empirical Analysis
217 F.3d 506 · 2000
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Smith (2002), United States v. Harris (2000)
29 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
Relies on United States v. Duarte · United States v. Taylor · United States v. Beler · United States v. Blevins · United States v. Cedano-Rojas
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the hallmark of reliability is consistency of facts and details.... We require only that the testimony be consistent, or that the trial judge provide an explanation for crediting one of the witness's inconsistent statements over the others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be applied if the weapon was present, unless it is clearly improbable that the weapon was connected with the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“defendant . . . falsely denies, or frivolously contests, relevant conduct that the court determines to be true. . . .”
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.