United States v. Creech’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.3d 264 · 2005
Citation profile
54 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Garza-Lopez (2005), United States v. Smith (2006)
54 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. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Johnson v. United States
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a valid exercise of Congress' commerce power, even though no specific nexus with interstate commerce is required for conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“uses fire . . . to commit any felony which may be prosecuted in a court of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“call[s] into question [the] long-standing practice”
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.