United States v. Soler’s Empirical Analysis
275 F.3d 146 · 2002
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Sanchez v. Pereira-Castillo (2009), Mariani-Colón v. Department of Homeland Security (2007)
27 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 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 Duncan v. Walker · Russello v. United States · United States v. Zannino · George Duncan Superintendent Great Meadow Correctional Facility v. Sherman Walker · United States v. Ortiz
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o convict under [the federal schoolyard statute], the government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the distance from a school to the actual site of the transaction, not merely to the curtilage or exterior wall of the structure in which the transaction takes place, is 1,000 feet or less.... Precise measurements may be unnecessary in some cases where the spatial leeway is relatively great and the gap in the chain of proof is relatively small.... [citing cases with spatial leeway as small as 326 feet]. In such extreme instances, common sense, common knowledge, and rough indices of distance can carry the day. When the spatial leeway is modest, however, and personal liberty is at stake, courts must examine the government’s proof with a more critical eye.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]recise measurements may be unnecessary in some cases where the spatial leeway is relatively great and the gap in the claim of proof is relatively small.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in or on, or within one thousand feet of”
2 later decisions 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.