United States v. Vickers’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.3d 356 · 2008
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Whindleton (2015), United States v. Gomez (2010)
10 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Adams v. Williams · Shepard v. United States · United States v. Sokolow · United States v. Arvizu
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.
“intentionally enter the highly dangerous drug distribution world”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]nvolving has expansive connotations ... encompassing ... offenses that are related to or connected with [distributing, manufacturing, or possessing.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]nvolving means related to or connected with.”
3 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.