United States v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
928 F.2d 1450 · 1991
Citation profile
205 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 353 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States of America v. Anthony Gibbs Richard Hough Donneto Berry Chad Gibbs Robert Curtis Lamont Needum Antwan Woods (1999), United States v. Conatser (2008)
205 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 3661 (Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1827
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Pinkerton v. United States · Poland v. Arizona · Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. United States · In re Disbarment of Sacco
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 353 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the weapon was present, unless it is clearly improbable that the weapon was connected with the offense.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that the defendant 'possessed' the weapon, and (2) that such possession was during the commission of the offense.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
11 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.