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United States v. Guest’s Empirical Analysis

978 F.3d 577 · 1992

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
September 2017
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2017

9 federal appellate · 1 district ·

120199220002010decided

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)

Relies on Wehrli v. Pagliotti · United States v. Clonts · United States v. Gonzales

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]his was a drug operation of considerable proportions,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “was deeply involved in the criminal activity.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “in a drug distribution case, quantities and types of drugs not specified in the count of conviction are to be included in determining the offense level if they were part of the same course of conduct or part of a common scheme or plan as the count of conviction.”
    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.