United States v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 1049 · 1993
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably United States v. Burgos (1996), United States v. Manigan (2010)
60 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · Carnegie v. United States · Stinson v. United States · McMillan v. Pennsylvania
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'possession of a large amount of [drugs] among several people working together may be sufficient to show that each had constructive possession.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the weapon was present, unless it is clearly improbable that the weapon was connected with the offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the firearm [was] present for protection and to facilitate the likelihood of success, whether or not it [was] actually used.”
2 later decisions 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.