United States v. Van’s Empirical Analysis
87 F.3d 1 · 1996
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States of America v. Angel Ortiz-Santiago (2000), United States v. Miranda-Santiago (1996)
24 federal appellate · 3 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. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Tucker · Nichols v. United States · Mitan v. United States · Tanner v. United States · United States v. Dietz
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although explicit resolution of disputed material facts is preferable, we have found that the court implicitly resolved the facts when the court's statements and the sentence imposed showed that the facts were decided in a particular way.”). Here, the district court expressly found that the statement tended to inculpate the codefendant and that it explained”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the absence of legal error, the district court's ruling will be sustained so long as the information upon which it relied is sufficient to support the findings under a clearly erroneous standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But . . . in the end we must be able to figure out what they 'found and the basis for the findings to the extent necessary to permit effective appellate review.'”
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.