United States v. Bost’s Empirical Analysis
968 F.2d 729 · 1992
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably United States v. Lucht (1994), United States v. Rodriguez (1994)
44 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 3742 · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 846 (§ 406 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois · In re Disbarment of Johnson · Gozlon-Peretz v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“show that the weapon was present, and ... that it was not clearly improbable that the weapon had a nexus with the criminal activity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f a dangerous weapon (including a firearm) was possessed during commission of the offense, increase by 2 levels.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a temporal and spacial relation existed between the weapon, the drug trafficking activity, and the defendant.”
2 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.