United States v. Barbontin’s Empirical Analysis
907 F.2d 1494 · 1990
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably United States v. Mergerson (1993), United States v. Rocha (1990)
87 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3553 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Nicholas v. United States · Alexander v. United States · McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund v. Presti
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the identities of the transactional participants need not be expressly proved”), Barbontin requires that the district court may only consider unidentified participants when there is proof that they were”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the defendant was an organizer or leader of a criminal activity that involved five or more participants or was otherwise extensive, increase [the base offense] by 4 levels.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“anchored to the transaction leading to the conviction”
3 later decisions 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.