United States v. Lorence’s Empirical Analysis
706 F.2d 512 · 1983
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2012
20 federal appellate · 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. § 232 · 18 U.S.C. § 841 (Amendments of 1973 to Federal Law) · 18 U.S.C. § 842 · 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 18 U.S.C. § 848
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Holland v. United States · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Sullivan 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gunpowders, powders used for blasting, all forms of high explosives, blasting materials, fuzes (other than electric circuit breakers), detonators, and other detonating agents, smokeless powders, other explosive or incendiary devices within the meaning of paragraph (5) of section 232 of this title, and any chemical compounds, mechanical mixture, or device that contains any oxidizing and combustible units, or other ingredients, in such proportions, quantities, or packing that ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonation of the compound, mixture, or device or any part thereof may cause an explosion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must view the evidence and all reasonable inferences which may be drawn therefrom, in the light most favorable to the government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonably minded jury must necessarily have entertained a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt.”
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.