United States v. Wahl’s Empirical Analysis
290 F.3d 370 · 2002
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably United States v. Lott (2002), United States v. Avery (2002)
57 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Bailey v. United States · United States of America v. Javier Ceballos-Torres · United States v. Mackey · United States v. Hernandez
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must decide the motion on the basis of the evidence at the time the ruling was reserved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence in the light most favorable to the government, and affirm[ing] a guilty verdict where any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the type of drug activity that is being conducted, accessibility of the firearm, the type of the weapon, whether the weapon is stolen, the status of the possession (legitimate or illegal), whether the gun is loaded, proximity to drugs or drug profits, and the time and circumstances under which the gun is found.”
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.