United States v. Petty’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 1374 · 1993
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. Becerra (1993), United States v. Carreon (1994)
25 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 Komen v. Robbins · Continental Casualty Co. v. UNR Industries, Inc. · Wellman v. Wellman · United States v. Edwards · United States 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the quantity of drugs distributed that were reasonably foreseeable by each [person] and (2) the quantity of drugs distributed that were within the scope of the particular agreement that each entered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the basis of the quantity of drugs which he reasonably foresaw or which fell within 'the scope' of his particular agreement with the conspirators.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where it is established that the conduct was neither within the scope of the defendant’s agreement, nor was reasonably foreseeable in connection with the criminal activity the defendant agreed to jointly undertake, such conduct is not included in establishing the defendant’s offense level under this guideline.”
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.