United States v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis
923 F.2d 427 · 1991
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Berger v. United States · United States v. Young
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hoever, during and in relation to any crime of violence or drug trafficking crime ..., uses or carries a firearm, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such crime of violence of drug trafficking crime, be sentenced to imprisonment for five years....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“) (citations and quotation marks omitted). 11 Bowden also argues that the district court implicitly directed a guilty verdict when it instructed the jury on the use of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. According to 18 U.S.C. section 924 (c)(1),”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“proof of a relationship between the weapon and the underlying offense that shows the weapon at least facilitated the offense. Mere possession of a weapon during the course of criminal conduct is not enough.”
2 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.