United States v. Barlow’s Empirical Analysis
41 F.3d 935 · 1994
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably United States v. Kimbrough (1995), United States v. Garcia Abrego (1998)
28 federal appellate · 14 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. § 1028 (Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998) · 18 U.S.C. § 247 · 18 U.S.C. § 3501 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on United States v. Olano · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Edwards v. Arizona · Escobedo v. Illinois · Blum v. Stenson
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the plain language of § 247 manifests Congress' specific intent to make criminal, inter alia, the conduct at issue here: the killing of Ed, Mark, and Duane for the sole reason that they chose to exercise their right to extricate themselves from the beliefs, practices, and fellowship of the Church.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Only if we find the text of [a statute] to be opaque or translucent, or even merely ambiguous, must we attempt to divine congressional intent by applying prescribed canons of statutory interpretation including, without limitation, a resort to the rule of lenity and legislative history.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“then our interpretative journey comes to an end, and we apply that plain meaning to the facts before us.”
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.