United States v. Hewin’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 3 · 1989
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably United States v. Ruiz (1990), United States v. Pofahl (1993)
44 federal appellate · 2 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. § 3742 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on United States v. Mejia-Orosco · United States v. Buenrostro · United States v. Otero · United States v. Mejia-Orosco · United States v. Robinson
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The enhancement for weapon possession reflects the increased danger of violence when drug traffickers possess weapons. The adjustment should be applied if the weapon was present, unless it is clearly improbable that the weapon was connected with the offense. For example, the enhancement would not be applied if the defendant, arrested at his residence, had an unloaded hunting rifle in the closet.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“assess[ed] the demeanor of the defendants and all the relevant information to ascertain [their] culpability in the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“firearm use or possession per se is a permissible basis for upward adjustment”
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.