United States v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
978 F.3d 573 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2021
8 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. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 3742 · 26 U.S.C. § 5811 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968) · 26 U.S.C. § 5841 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on United States v. Broce · Lewis v. Adamson · United States v. Beaulieu · Beaulieu v. United States · United States v. Bernaugh
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[We] will reverse only if the district court's finding was without factual support in the record or we are left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the exercise of decision making authority, the nature of participation in the commission of the offense, the recruitment of accomplices, the claimed right to a larger share of the fruits of the crime, the degree of participation in planning or organizing the offense, the nature and scope of the illegal activity, and the degree of control and authority exercised over others.”
1 later decision 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.