United States v. Beverly’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 559 · 1991
Citation profile
34 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Bell v. United States · United States v. Bell · United States v. Feliz-Cordero · United States v. Hernandez-Palacios
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.
“Whoever, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime ... uses or carries a firearm, shall ... be sentenced to imprisonment for five years, ... and if the firearm is a machine gun, ... to imprisonment for thirty years....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n evaluating a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, a court must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict to determine whether any rational trier of fact could have found each element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A jury ... could reasonably connect the [$2,200 in] cash to the drug trafficking”
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.