United States v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
477 F.3d 607 · 2007
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Canania (2008), United States v. Peroceski (2008)
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Missouri v. Seibert · United States v. Harper · United States v. Rugh · United States v. Sanchez-Garcia · United States v. Mendoza-Gonzalez
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only if no reasonable jury could have found [the defendant] guilty 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.