United States v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
954 F.2d 232 · 1992
Citation profile
130 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably United States v. Burgos (1996), United States v. Collins (2005)
130 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
Relies on Glasser v. United States · United States v. Laughman · United States v. Giunta · United States v. Roberts
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constructive possession exists when the defendant exercises, or has the power to exercise, dominion and control over the item,”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the government must show, first, that a conspiracy existed; then, that the defendant had knowledge of the conspiracy; and finally, that the defendant voluntarily became a part of the conspiracy.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'circumstances indicating that two or more people acted in concert to achieve an illegal goal.'”
8 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.