United States v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 1143 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably 11 Cal. 4th 786 - People v. Memro (1995), United States v. Ross (1994)
11 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1074 · 18 U.S.C. § 1111 · 18 U.S.C. § 1958 · 18 U.S.C. § 841 (Amendments of 1973 to Federal Law) · 18 U.S.C. § 842 · 18 U.S.C. § 844 · 48 U.S.C. § 731 (Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Ashe v. Swenson · Brown v. Ohio · Green v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter
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.
“Congress has [ ] delegated more authority to Puerto Rico over local matters .... this has not changed in any way Puerto Rico's constitutional status as a territory, or the source of power over Puerto Rico. Congress continues to be the ultimate source of power pursuant to the Territory Clause of the Constitution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“subject for the same offence to be twice put in Jeopardy of life or Umb.”
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.