United States v. Fiore’s Empirical Analysis
983 F.2d 1 · 1992
Citation profile
114 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Saccoccia (1995), United States v. Rodriguez (2002)
114 federal appellate · 10 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. § 924
Relies on Taylor v. United States · Tristani v. Eastern Air Lines, Inc. · Hughey v. United States · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington · Halas v. Department of Energy
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alone, for that superficial label says next to nothing about the underlying nature of the crime and, therefore, about whether it should be classified as a crime of violence or a controlled substance offense. Instead, one must ask, and answer, the more specific question”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n general, we will defer to the Commission's suggested interpretation of a guideline provision unless [that] position [was] arbitrary, unreasonable, inconsistent with the guideline's text, or contrary to law.”
3 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.