United States v. Guzman’s Empirical Analysis
849 F.2d 447 · 1988
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably United States v. Manarite (1995), United States v. Bracy (1995)
35 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. United States · Garrett v. United States · United States v. Penagos · United States v. Birges · United States v. Bradford S. Taylor, United States of America v. Vincent Carmen Pinto
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inconsistent verdicts may stand, even when a conviction is rationally incompatible with an acquittal, provided there is sufficient evidence to support a guilty verdict.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, any rational trier of fact could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the elements of the crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a conviction of one defendant and an acquittal of the other when the only evidence of culpability applies equally to both may violate due process unless there is an articulation of a rational basis for dissimilar treatment.”
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.