United States v. Foreman’s Empirical Analysis
926 F.2d 792 · 1990
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably United States v. Williamson (1995), United States v. Ajiboye (1992)
55 federal appellate · 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. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton · Caminetti v. United States · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the defendant abused a position of public or private trust, or used a special skill, in a manner that significantly facilitated the commission or concealment of the offense, increase by 2 levels.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]olice officers are accorded public trust to enforce the law. The public, including fellow law enforcement agents, expect that police officers will not violate the laws they are charged with enforcing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether an abuse of a position of trust must implicate a special privilege accorded someone in [the defendant's] position.”
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.