United States v. August’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.3d 151 · 1996
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably United States v. Alvarez (2004), United States v. Kilby (2006)
21 federal appellate · 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. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis v. Carver · Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Landry · United States v. Sepulveda · Thompson v. Virginia · United States v. Walton
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the government is required to prove the approximate quantity by a preponderance of the evidence ... [which means that] [t]he district court must conclude that the defendant is more likely than not actually responsible for a quantity greater than or equal to the quantity for which the defendant is being held responsible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether the method adopted by the district court to approximate the relevant quantity of drugs is proper under the guidelines is . . . reviewed de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`sufficient indicia of reliability to support its probable accuracy.'”
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.