United States v. Raynor’s Empirical Analysis
939 F.2d 191 · 1991
Citation profile
64 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably United States v. Smith (1992), United States v. Jones (1992)
64 federal appellate ·
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. § 16 · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 962
Relies on American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Lane v. Peterson · Crisp v. Rubin · Tiller v. NCNB Bank · Shibuya v. Voss
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he plain meaning of the statute supports the conclusion that a conviction on a second firearms count, even though charged in the same indictment as the first, gives rise to the enhanced sentence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[wjhoever, during and in relation to any crime of violence ... uses or carries a firearm, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for such crime of violence ... be sentenced to imprisonment for five years.... In the case of his second or subsequent conviction under this subsection, such person shall be sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years.... ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to require separate indictments would have no purpose other than to require the government to perform the meaningless ministerial function of typing and presenting two indictments, instead of one, to the grand jury.”
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.