United States v. Pineiro’s Empirical Analysis
389 F.3d 1359 · 2004
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Garcia (2005), United States v. Brown (2005)
18 federal appellate ·
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. § 2 · 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) · 21 U.S.C. § 856 (§ 416 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · United States v. Shabani · United States v. Ramirez-Chilel · United States v. Toler · United States v. Zapata
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such a credibility finding is within the province of the factfinder.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if there is substantial evidence to support [it], unless no trier of fact could have found guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.