United States v. Becerra’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 960 · 1993
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably United States v. Davis (1994), Bonin v. Calderon (1995)
105 federal appellate · 5 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. § 1952 · 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Johnson v. Righetti · Soto v. United States · Domby v. United States · Clampitt v. Interinsurance Exchange
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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“each conspirator may be sentenced only for the quantity of drugs that he reasonably foresaw would be distributed or that fell within the scope of his own agreement with his co-conspirators.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'weak, insufficient, inconsistent, or of doubtful credibility.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury; (2) a well-grounded fear that the threat will be carried out; and (3) no reasonable opportunity to escape the threatened harm.”
4 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.