United States v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
925 F.2d 1049 · 1991
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 681 So. 2d 521 - Hoops v. State (1996), United States v. Butler (1995)
53 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2114 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 924
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Pinkerton v. United States · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Castor v. United States · Balistrieri v. United States
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assault[ ] any person having lawful charge, control, or custody of any mail matter or of any money or other property of the United States, with intent to rob, steal, or purloin such mail matter, money, or other property of the United States, or rob[ ] or attempt[ ] to rob any such person of mail matter, or of any money, or other property of the United States....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“DeLeon's testimony about Mr. Rodriguez's position as an enforcer could have helped the jury understand why Mr. Rodriguez approached DeLeon and why the latter, a mere soldier in the gang, quickly agreed to participate in this criminal endeavor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“emboldening an actor who had the opportunity or ability to display or discharge the weapon to protect himself or intimidate others, whether or not such display or discharge in fact occurred....”
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.