United States v. Cacho’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 308 · 1992
Citation profile
33 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably United States v. Rodriguez De Varon (1999), United States v. Rivera (1993)
33 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. § 3553 · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Lane v. Peterson · Norman v. Reed · Grogan v. Garner · Gracey v. Reigle · United States v. Buenrostro
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although [defendant] was a courier who carried the drugs into the United States, that fact alone does not establish that she was either a minimal or minor participant in the conspiracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.