United States v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 138 · 1995
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Lang (1996), United States v. Gay (2001)
37 federal appellate · 3 district · 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Chapman v. United States · Moskal v. United States · Ladner v. United States · Deal v. United States · United States v. Johnson
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“occurs when the same conduct on the part of the defendant is used to support separate increases under separate enhancement provisions which necessarily overlap, are indistinct, and serve identical purposes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'grievous ambiguity or uncertainty in the language and structure'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“18 U.S.C. §§ 844 (h), 924(c), and 929(a) provide mandatory minimum penalties for the conduct proscribed. To avoid double counting, when a sentence under this section is imposed in conjunction with a sentence for an underlying offense, any specific offense characteristic for explosive dr firearm discharge, use, or possession is not applied in respect to such underlying offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.