United States v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
93 F.3d 311 · 1996
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably United States v. Noriega (1997), United States v. Turcotte (2005)
60 federal appellate · 2 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. § 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Giglio v. United States · Burks v. United States · Kyles v. Whitley
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“its suppression undermines confidence in the outcome of the trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'are wary of second-guessing the determinations of both judge and jury.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is clear from the record that the actions of the defendant upon which the now-infirm 'use' charge is predicated necessarily constitute a 'carrying' of the firearm as that term is used in the statute ..., we have affirmed the section 924(c) convictions.”
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.