United States v. Burgos’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.3d 849 · 1996
Citation profile
227 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,101 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably United States v. White (2005), United States v. Abu Ali (2008)
227 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Olano · Glasser v. United States · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Burks v. United States
Cited together with Glasser v. United States · United States v. Olano · United States v. Booker · Anders v. California · Apprendi v. New Jersey
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 1,101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is substantial evidence, taking the view most favorable to the Government, to support it.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]ubstantial evidence is evidence that a reasonable finder of fact could accept as adequate and sufficient to support a conclusion of a defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must establish that: (1) an agreement to possess[the drugs] with intent to distribute existed between two or more persons; (2) the defendant knew of the conspiracy; and (3) the defendant knowingly and voluntarily became a part of the conspiracy.”
6 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.