United States v. Gonzalez’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 417 · 1991
Citation profile
144 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Jones (1995), United States v. Lechuga (1993)
144 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Giglio v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable trier of fact could have found beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of the single conspiracy charged in the indictment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] single conspiracy exists [i]f there is one overall agreement among the various parties to perform different functions in order to carry out the objectives of the conspiracy. [Multiple] conspiracies exist when each of the conspirators' agreements has its own end, and each constitutes an end in itself.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test is whether after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the government, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 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.