United States v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
733 F.2d 364 · 1984
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Brown (1990), United States v. Williams (1993)
25 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1510 · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Michel v. United States · United States v. Feola · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Florida v. Royer · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e believe that in order to convict [defendant] on the theory that [eoconspirator] aided and abetted [defendant], the government had to prove that [defendant] knew that [coconspirator] was carrying a firearm while the latter was carrying out the directions of the former.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) Peremptory Challenges. * * * If the offense charged is punishable by imprisonment for more than one year, the government is entitled to [six] peremptory challenges and the defendant or defendants jointly to [ten] peremptory challenges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have never held that the government must prove that the defendant knew that his or her act of carrying a firearm was unlawful in order to sustain a conviction under section 924(c)(2)”
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.