United States v. Schnell’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 216 · 1992
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably United States v. Demaree (2006), United States v. Seacott (1994)
48 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
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Dennis v. United States · Brewster v. Derwinski · United States v. Dotterweich · Liparota 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enhancement under subsection (b)(4) for a ... firearm with an altered or obliterated serial number applies whether or not the defendant knew or had reason to believe that the firearm ... had an altered or obliterated serial number.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prescribes elevated penalties for the possession with intent to distribute cocaine [base] in crack form, regardless of whether the defendant knew the amount or nature of the controlled substance ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether or not the defendant knew or had reason to believe that the firearm ... had an altered or obliterated serial number.”
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.