United States v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.3d 59 · 1996
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably United States v. Hernandez (1996), United States v. Canady (1997)
24 federal appellate · 4 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. § 924
Relies on Bailey v. United States · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Griffin v. United States · United States v. Eichman
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based on consideration of the entire jury charge and the evidence, that the jury's finding of a section 924(c) violation was the 'functional equivalent' ... of a finding that the firearm had been unlawfully carried.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the evidence in the pending case, if accepted by the jury, reveals that the gun could have been found to have been located at either (or both) of two locations. One location was Vasquez’s apartment. The other was on his person when he went to a meeting with his narcotics associates. Under the instructions, the jury could have improperly found the first circumstance to be ‘use’ and properly found the second circumstance to be ‘carrying.’ Since we are unable to determine whether the verdict rested on a legally sufficient theory and the verdict is not the functional equivalent of a necessary finding of ‘carrying,’ we agree ... that the firearm conviction must be reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“prong of section 924(c) may be relied upon to sustain a defendant's conviction under this statute, notwithstanding the insufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction under the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.