United States v. Lyman’s Empirical Analysis
892 F.2d 751 · 1989
Citation profile
72 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably United States v. Brown (1990), United States v. Hadfield (1990)
72 federal appellate ·
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) · 26 U.S.C. § 5861 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. LTV Corp. · United States v. Matra · United States v. Feliz-Cordero · United States of America v. Ramon Jorge Laguardia and Marina Hidalgo Gato. · United States v. Theodoropoulos
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that a gun is located in a room that is not the center of drug transactions does not preclude the possibility that a drug dealer intended to use it to support his operations.... The key is always whether the placement of the gun or guns suggests they would be quickly available for use in an emergency.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“even if a firearm is not instantly available or exclusively dedicated to the narcotics trade, a sufficient nexus may exist to support a finding that it was 'used' during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The government need not show that [the defendant] was in actual possession of the firearm, or that [the defendant] brandished or discharged it. The jury need only find a 'sufficient nexus' between the gun and the drug trafficking crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.