United States v. Tremelling’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.3d 148 · 1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Castillo (1996), Burton v. United States (2000)
12 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on United States v. Russell · Brewster v. Derwinski · Golden Pacific Bancorp v. United States · Kashif v. United States · City of El Centro 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant's participation must be enough less so that he at best was peripheral to the advancement of the illicit activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any participant who is less culpable than most other participants, but whose role could not be described as minimal.”
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.