United States v. Spring’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 1450 · 1996
Citation profile
96 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Westbrook (1997), United States v. Garth (1999)
96 federal appellate · 3 district · 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. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 3162 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on United States v. Olano · Taylor v. United States · Bailey v. United States · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · Brewster v. Derwinski
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“suggests that neither storage nor possession of a gun, without more, satisfies the 'carry' prong of § 924(c)(1).”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'having a firearm readily available to assist or aid in the commission of the alleged underlying crime of violence'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“its reasons for finding that the ends of justice served by the granting of such a continuance outweigh the best interests of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial.”
3 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.