United States v. Fonville’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 781 · 1993
Citation profile
32 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably United States v. Frederick Keith Singleton (1997), United States v. Betts (1994)
32 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. § 3553
Relies on Kashif v. United States · Pledger v. Medlock · United States v. Bayerle · Hendrick v. Avent · United States v. Davis
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“geography and not ... the nature of the offenses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did not involve similar substantive offenses.”
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.