United States v. Berchiolly’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 634 · 1995
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably United States v. Brack (1999), United States v. Yusuff (1996)
33 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · Rauer v. United States · Mitan v. United States · Rita v. United States
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when the record is devoid of any evidence, regardless of how it is weighed, from which a jury could find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court's factual determination regarding the possession of a dangerous weapon during the course of a drug conspiracy is reviewed for clear error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the possession was in furtherance of a jointly undertaken criminal activity that was reasonably foreseeable by the defendant.”
2 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.