United States v. Eagle Thunder’s Empirical Analysis
893 F.2d 950 · 1990
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably United States v. Sriyuth (1996), United States v. Rouse (1997)
40 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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. § 1153 · 18 U.S.C. § 1201 · 18 U.S.C. § 2241 · 18 U.S.C. § 2245 (§ 60010 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Townsend v. Burke · Scharffe v. Perkins · Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Morrison v. Olson
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a greater degree of force than is necessary to sustain a conviction [of aggravated sexual abuse by force].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the abusive sexual contact was accomplished as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2241 (including, but not limited to, the use or display of any dangerous weapon), increase by 9 levels.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the offense was committed by the means set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 2241(a) or (b)”
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.