United States v. Suarez’s Empirical Analysis
313 F.3d 1287 · 2002
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Bailey v. United States · United States v. Cotton · United States, v. Jacinto Rodriguez-Moreno · Goldberg v. Ellett
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny person who, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug[-] trafficking crime ... for which the person may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, uses or carries a firearm, or who, in furtherance of any such crime, possesses a firearm....”
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.