United States v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.3d 439 · 1995
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably United States v. Betz (1996), United States v. Mejia-Uribe (1996)
21 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. § 3553 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Invex Holdings, N.V. v. Equitable Life Insurance · United States v. Lucht · United States v. Williams · United States v. Dutcher · United States v. Stockdall
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The enhancement for weapon possession reflects the increased danger of violence when drug traffickers possess weapons. The adjustment should be applied if the weapon was present, unless it is clearly improbable that the weapon was connected with the offense. For example, the enhancement would not be applied if the defendant, arrested at his residence, had an unloaded hunting rifle in the closet.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e will not reverse the [d]istrict [c]ourt's conclusion that the weapon was connected to the offense unless it is clearly erroneous.”
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.